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Balancing impact and efficiency in microfinance administration : the importance of attention to program design

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Kearney, Emily Q.

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Microfinance, or the technique of lending small amounts of money to the world’s poor for productive activities, has become a popular strategy for poverty-alleviation, achieving legislative status as a development strategy in the U.S. in 2000 with the Microenterprise for Self-Sufficiency Act. However, microfinance has increasingly failed to achieve the...

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Capstone Project

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requirements for the degree of Master of Public Policy Presented November 26, 2008
Empowerment or a 'citizenship project'? : microcredit with education in Cuzco, Peru

Creator:

Kearney, Emily Q.

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Microfinance, or the technique of lending small amounts of money to the world's poor for productive activities, has emerged as a dominant approach to poverty alleviation among international development organizations. However, consensus does not yet exist as to the best mechanism for delivery of loans. While most organizations simply offer...

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Masters Thesis

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structural adjustment policy lacked the support of a social program designed to ameliorate the negative