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Microfinance for Poverty Reduction
Development Bulletin No. 57 February  2002
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Features
Introduction: Microfinance and poverty reduction 
Joe Remenyi

Microfinance outreach and poverty reduction
Micofinance in the Australian aid programme 
Kieran Donaghue and Stav Zotalis

Financing microfinance for poverty reduction 
David S. Gibbon

Relative system risks to the savings of poor people 
Graham A.N. Wright and Leonard K. Mutesasira

Including the excluded: Lessons learned from the poverty-targeting 
strategies used by microfinance providers
Alison Mathie

Poverty, credit and microcredit in rural China
Jonathan Unger

Microfinance partnerships: Opportunities and challenges 
Delores McLaughlin

Credit unions and microfinance innovation 
Grahame Mehrtens

Potential roles for donors in the development and promotion of microinsurance
Craig Churchill

Best practice in microfinance
Microfinance best practice: Ten parameters of success for development NGOs 
Joe Remenyi

ASA: Profile of a successful microfinance institution 
Shafiqual Haque Choudhury and Mustafa Kamal

Microfinance regulation in South Africa: A comparative perspective 
Patrick Meagher

Microfinance regulation and supervision in Zambia 
Edna Mudenda

Developing savings facilities: The Opportunity Microfinance Bank in the Philippines
Catherine Roc

Gender and microfinance
Microfinance and women’s empowerment: Turning lead to gold?
Roshaneh Zafar

Grameen Bank-style microcredit: Impact on dowry and women’s solidarity 
Santi Rozario

Reflections on microfinance and women’s empowerment
Juliet Hunt and Nalini Kasynathan

Microfinance and women’s empowerment: Rethinking ‘best practice’ 
Linda Mayoux

Case Studies
Research and innovation agenda of the INCOME project 
Carlos Ani

Bougainville microfinance: Rebuilding rural communities after the crisis 
John Newsom

Gender and microfinance in Bougainville: A case study 
Julia Byford and Gertrude Guanara

Microfinance in the Pacific – mipela katim bus! The experience of Putim na Kisim
Karen Lewin

Location and microenterprise performance: Evidence from Sri Lanka 
Judith Shaw

Microcredit and poverty alleviation under post-socialism: The Oxfam-Community Aid Abroad experience
Mark Deasey

Human resource development
The Internal Learning System: A tool for microfinance and livelihoods interventions
Helzi Noponen

Microfinance as a vehicle for educating the poor
Christopher Dunford

Viewpoint
Moris Rasik: Reflections from the field in Timor 
Helen Todd

Microfinance and poverty alleviation: The dangers of development ‘snake oil’
Patrick Kilby

Grant-based approaches to microfinance
Michael Pretes