September 30, 2003

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¿Entrepreneurs...born or made?

Spreading the virus of entrepreneurship

 

 

To Market, To Market
Microfinance Institutions turn to capital markets
Editor's Letter
Jacqueline Bass
Cash Profits versus Social Gain
Offering new products without losing sight of their initial vision
Banking
- "The Devil in the Details..."
-How to Value Microfinance Funds
- Microfinance Institutions Win a Coveted Seal of Approval
-Can Cooperatives Pull it Together?
 
How not to Manage a Microfinance Institution
Critical lessons learned
Demand + Products
- Leasing: A Secure Way to Finance Machinery Purchases
- Housing Microfinance: Where Conventional Bankers Fear to Tread
Guatemala's "can-do" attitude
The microenterprise sector comes together in Guatemala
Interviews
- What Can Be Done to Lower the Cost of Money?
- Starbucks and the Fair Trade Movement
Aguablanca, where microenterprises are sprouting by the thousands

Entrepreneurial energy in a district of Cali, Colombia

In Closing
Antonio Vives

 

 

Entering the market chained together to face the competition

MSME's strive to insert themselves in the production chain of large corporations


Editor-in-Chief

Jacqueline Bass

Editorial Board
Peter Bate, Tor Jansson, Marc Labie, Fernando Lucano, Beatriz Marulanda, Alvaro R. Ramírez, Alicia Ritchie, Jorge Roldán and Antonio Vives.

Translation and Editing
Patricia Ardila
Jan Gibboney
Dina Towbin


Sponsorships
Florencia Pettigrew

Circulation Manager
Margarita Reyes

Design and Production
The Magazine Group/TMG Web

Executive Vice President
Richard Creighton

Art Director
Bruce Tobin

Production Manager
Adriana Guevara

MicroEnterprise Americas is published by the Inter-American Forum on Microenterprise, an annual event organized by the Inter-American Development Bank; Enrique V. Iglesias, President. The Inter-American Development Bank is not responsible for the editorial content of MicroEnterprise Americas; the views expressed in the articles are those of the authors.

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