Safe money
Subtitle: building effective credit unions in Latin America
By: Glenn D. Westley and Brian Branch, editors.
Contributors: Westley, Glenn D.; Branch, Brian.; Inter-American Development Bank.; World Council of Credit Unions.
Publisher: Distributed by the Johns Hopkins University Press for the Inter-American Development Bank and the World Council of Credit Unions
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
Subjects: Credit unions -- Latin America -- Congresses.; Credit unions -- Latin America -- Management -- Congresses.; Banks and banking, Cooperative -- Latin America -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Other titles: Building effective credit unions in Latin America
Description: "Policymakers in Latin America increasingly are turning to policies that have high economic rates of return and a favorable impact on income distribution. By providing financial services to small businesses and poor households - which normally lack such services - credit unions help secure growth with equity. The challenges faced by Latin America's credit unions today are likely to force them to further modernize and consolidate, fine tune their inherent advantages, improve mechanisms for prudential regulation, and find ways to increase their share of low and middle-income markets. Safe Money presents the new thinking on how credit unions can compete effectively in modern financial markets while still retaining their social mission."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"The Inter-American Development Bank hosted the conference 'Building Modern and Effective Credit Unions in Latin America' in March 1998 in Washington ... This book draws on the conference to analyze major problems facing credit unions today"--Foreword.
Table of contents: title: Issues and recommendations for credit unions in Latin America / Glenn D. Westley and Brian Branch; title: Here come the commercial banks / Beatriz Marulanda; title: The relevance and challenges of credit unions today / Carlos E. Cuevas; title: Credit union delinquency and profitability / Glenn D. Westley and Sherrill Shaffer; title: Model credit unions into the twenty-first century / David C. Richardson; title: Reforming credit unions in Honduras / Lee Arbuckle and Dale W. Adams; title: Lessons from the Kenya Railways Credit Union / Michael O'Donnell; title: Regulation and supervision of credit unions / Jeffrey Poyo; title: Bolivia's experience in the regulation and supervision of credit unions / Jacques Trigo; title: Mexico's experience supervising credit unions / Alejandro Vargas Durán; title: Delegated supervision in a complete system of financial discipline / Helmut Pabst; title: Overcoming credit union governance problems / Brian Branch and Christopher Baker; title: The formation of cooperative banks from mergers of credit unions in Argentina / Carlos Heller; title: Branching and networking in Guatemala / Síncrito Cifuentes; title: Commentary and perspective / Robert Peck Christen.