Mainstreaming Microfinance: How Lending to the Poor Began, Grew and Came of Age in Bolivia

By Elisabeth Rhyne. 2001

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Subfields: Business and International Management, Economics and Econometrics

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Microfinance: accountability from the grassroots (2006, background): “Microfinance has been defined as the provision of financial services such as deposits, loans, payment services, money transfers and insurance to low-income, poor and excluded people enabling them to raise their income and living standards (Rhyne, 2001).”
Do regulated microfinance institutions achieve better sustainability and outreach? Cross-country evidence (2007, background): “Examples include PRODEM, established in Bolivia in 1986 as NGO and transformed into BancoSol in 1992, Mibanco, with microfinance operation dating back to 1982, transformed into a bank in 1998 and AMPES (Asociación de la Mediana y Pequeña Empresa) with microfinance operations (The Servicio Creditic”
BUILDING SUSTAINABLE HYBRID ORGANIZATIONS: THE CASE OF COMMERCIAL MICROFINANCE ORGANIZATIONS (2010, background): “On Mondays they have money” (Rhyne, 2001).”
Microfinance and the Illusion of Development: From Hubris to Nemesis in Thirty Years (2012, background): “The first ‘microfinance meltdown’ had actually taken place in Bolivia in 1999-2000, but at the time microfinance supporters described it as a ‘one-off’ aberration caused by factors supposedly unrelated to the core of the microfinance model, such as unfair competition from a large MFI coming to Boliv”
Microfinance in Times of Crisis: The Effects of Competition, Rising Indebtedness, and Economic Crisis on Repayment Behavior (2003, background): “For Bolivia, (Rhyne, 2001, pp. 19, 31) estimates that between 25% and 33% of all microenterprises obtain microfinance loans.”
Preventing intimate partner and sexual violence against women: taking action and generating evidence (2010, background): “account reports of lenders exploiting disadvantaged borrowers with very high rates of interest which can trap people in debt and contribute to further poverty (Rhyne, 2001) as well as reports of increases in intimate partner violence (Kabeer, 2001).”
On mission drift in microfinance institutions (2011, unknown): “Their approach, however, delivers little guidance for empirical researchers, if only because poverty is more difficult to measure in practice, and because the poverty 19A notable example can be found in Rhyne (2001).”