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 administration AID's amount assets BancoSol Bangladesh bankers basic Bolivia budget capital markets Chairman GILMAN child survival collateral commercial banks committee CONG CONGRES CONGRESS THE LIBRARY countries create donors DUSEN economically viable example expand financial institutions FINCA International foreign aid foreign assistance founder of FINCA funding for microenterprise Gedjenson GEJDENSON going GOODLING gram Grameen Bank Grameen Trust grant growth hope HOUGHTON improve income investment John Hatch Latin America lend money LIBRARY CONGRESS LIBRARY OF CONGRESS loan portfolio manage ment Michael Chu micro credit Microenterprise Coalition microenterprise development microenterprise initiative microenterprise programs million borrowers Muhammad Yunus NGOs numbers of clients nutrition organizations percent poor poorest poverty lending programs private sector reach repayment rate Ros-Lehtinen savings SCD enterprises self-employment society staff trying USAID VAN DUSEN village bank want to thank women World Bank
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Pagina 54 - The purpose of this summit was 'to launch a global movement to reach 100 million of the world's poorest families, especially the women of those families, with credit for self-employment and other financial and business services, by the year 2005'.
Pagina 46 - ... these millions of small people with their millions of small pursuits can add up to create the biggest development wonder.
Pagina 50 - ... life. Thus, the road to socio-economic prosperity must be a continuous process of creation of assets, so that the asset base of a poor person becomes stronger at each economic cycle to enable him to earn more and more.
Pagina 37 - Members of the Committee. Thank you for the invitation to testify before you on the issue of adjustment of the 1990 census figures to correct an undercount problem.
Pagina 10 - Mr. Chairman, I would like to submit a written statement for the record and then just briefly summarize them in opening comments.
Pagina 47 - Bangladesh had a terrible famine in 1974. I was teaching economics in a Bangladesh university at that time. 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 next door to the university campus.
Pagina 19 - We would be pleased to answer any questions you have. Thank you very much. [The prepared statement of Mr.
Pagina 50 - Women, for example, are less likely to find wage employment in countries where there is no tradition for female employment. Even if wage employment is available to some, it may not be very stable.
Pagina 45 - ... significant contribution to the national interest by enacting legislation that — • Shifts spectrum from the Federal Government's own inventory to the FCC, where private sector could be authorized; and, " Gives the FCC authority to engage in competitive bidding process for radio spectrum licensing. Thank you for providing me with this opportunity to share my views on this important subject. STATEMENT OF HENRY GELLER, COMMUNICATIONS FELLOW, THE MARKLE FOUNDATION, TO THE HOUSE SUBCOMMITTEE ON...
Pagina 52 - In this alternative version of the capitalist world, instead of one motivating factor (greed) to keep it in motion, we can introduce social consciousness or social dreams as another motivating factor. Both types of people can be in the same market place, using the same tools and concepts of capitalism, but pursuing completely different goals. The alternative vision of the world under capitalism will not be as black as it turned out under the 'greed alone