Cloning Grameen Bank: Replicating a Poverty Reduction Model in India, Nepal and Vietnam

Inspired by the enormous success of the Grameen Bank in providing financial assistance to the poorest of the poor, four individuals - a central banker, an appropriate-technology NGO organizer, a professor of international relations and a top-level communist official - each sought to replicate and adapt the model elsewhere in Asia. By giving an unvarnished account of the problems encountered in the crucial first years of establishing a credit programme, the book alerts potential microcredit practitioners to the pitfalls and obstacles likely to be encountered in setting up a program. The book provides the opportunity to analyse the process of creating a successful credit program and draws from the experience of these four projects some lessons in best practice.

Author: Helen Todd

Publisher: Intermediate Technology Publications

Publication Date: Dec 15, 1996

Number of Pages: 136 pages

Binding: Paperback or Softback

ISBN-10: 1853393908

ISBN-13: 9781853393907