Microenterprise - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Apr 1998
News

Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International

economy and brings food to the table through microenterprise - selling oranges, repairing shoes, making utensils out of scrap metal. We provide access to credit that those people can't otherwise get. Over the last five years, we've... View Details

01 Oct 2001
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Margaret Hanson Costan: A Whole New World

parents busy, they are delighted with the rewards and responsibilities of raising a child. The energetic preschooler offers a very different set of challenges for Costan than did the World Bank, where she'd spent a decade working on energy projects, setting up loans... View Details

Keywords: Young, Susan

01 Oct 1997
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Meeting the Challenges of Third-World Development

improve the economic and social well-being of low-income people by helping them create sustainable businesses. The diverse microenterprises she worked with included oil seed extraction, a sewing school, farming activities, dairy... View Details

01 Apr 2002
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Emerging Research on Emerging Markets

and economic growth; John Sutton of the London School of Economics on industrial development; and Chris Woodruff of the University of California, San Diego on remittances and microenterprises in Mexico. Although the colloquia was... View Details

Keywords: Yasheng Huang; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Sep 2003
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Andrea Silbert

coffee, banana, and textile businesses, Silbert developed a strong interest in microenterprise and arrived at Soldiers Field eager to expand her knowledge. “Initially, I had a hard time trying to share my experiences with others,” she... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Dec 2001
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Reaching Out

microenterprise program for poor women and girls founded by Nundy's mother, that Nundy met Suchismita, whose successful trip to the bank became the talk of her village. While some fellows elect to enter the private sector after... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna; Health, Social Assistance

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