num_pages: 208
description: Drawing on a wide base of experience and new data, this book offers a comprehensive and balanced analysis of major issues and approaches in microfinance aiming at the poor. It guards against promoting a single model of microfinance and burdening financial services with unrealistic expectations for poverty alleviation while also offering guidance for reconciling outreach and sustainability of financial institutions serving ever growing numbers of the poor.
language: English
title: Microfinance for the Poor
titlecomplete: Microfinance for the Poor
publisher: Organization for Economic