The Value of Microenterprise Development: Hearing Before the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, First Session, June 27, 1995, Volume 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1995 - 56 pagina's |
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$2 million Accion International ACCION Network Administrator AID's amount assets BancoSol Bangladesh bankers basic Bereuter bipartisan Bolivia budget capital markets Chairman GILMAN child survival collateral commercial banks committee countries create creation dollars donors DUSEN economic effective example expand financial institutions financial markets FINCA International foreign aid foreign assistance founder of FINCA funding for microenterprise Gedjenson GEJDENSON GOODLING gram Grameen Bank Grameen Trust grant growth hope HOUGHTON improve income increase investment John Hatch Latin America loan portfolio ment Michael Chu micro credit Microenterprise Coalition microenterprise development microenterprise initiative microenterprise programs microentrepreneurs million borrowers Muhammad Yunus NGOs nutrition organizations percent poor poorest poverty lending programs private sector reach repayment rate role Ros-Lehtinen savings SCD enterprises self-employment severe poverty society staff success unearmarked USAID VAN DUSEN village bank want to thank women World Bank
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Pagina 49 - If the goals of development include improved standards of living, removal of poverty, access to dignified employment, and reduction in societal inequality, then it is quite natural to start with women. They constitute the majority of the poor, the underemployed, and the economically and socially disadvantaged in most societies. Furthermore, women suffer from the additional burdens imposed by
Pagina 46 - terms and conditions that are appropriate and reasonable, these millions of small people with their millions of small pursuits can add up to create the biggest development wonder.
Pagina 54 - to reach 100 million of the world's poorest families, especially the women of those families, with credit for self-employment by 2005.
Pagina 19 - country. I thank you for the opportunity to testify and I am willing to answer any questions you have.
Pagina 37 - of the Committee, thank you for the invitation to testify before you on the
Pagina 11 - of the Committee, thank you for the invitation to testify before you. My
Pagina 10 - Chairman. I would like to submit a written statement for the record, but
Pagina 19 - to answer any questions you have. Thank you, very much. [The prepared statement
Pagina 3 - Chairman. I am very pleased to have this opportunity to meet with the committee and to
Pagina 47 - You can guess how difficult it is to teach the elegant theories of economics when people are dying of hunger all around you. Those theories appeared like cruel jokes. I became a drop-out from formal economics. I wanted to learn economics from the poor in the village