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dc.titleMoney Matters: Reaching Women Microentrepreneurs with Financial Services
dc.contributor.authorAlmeyda-Stemper, Gloria
dc.contributor.orgunitSustainable Development Department
dc.coverageCosta Rica
dc.coverageChile
dc.coverageColombia
dc.coverageDominican Republic
dc.coverageEcuador
dc.coverageJamaica
dc.coverageCentral America
dc.coverageSouth America
dc.coverageThe Caribbean
dc.date.available2011-10-26T00:00:00
dc.date.issue1997-01-01T00:00:00
dc.description.abstractFor women microentrepreneurs, access to financial services matters. It is critical to their ability to make productive investments in their businesses. As part of IDB's efforts to strengthen women's roles in economic development, the Women in Development Unit undertook a study to analyze the kinds of financial services available to women microentrepreneurs. It examined the financial services offered by a range of institutions, including commercial banks, credit unions, and nongovernmental organizations, for six countries in Latin American and the Caribbean (Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, and Jamaica). Money Matters synthesized the results of this study, comparing financial services available among institutions within and across countries. It shows that, in addition to nongovernmental organizations, credit unions and some commercial banks, can and do provide appropriate savings, credit, and other financial services to microentrepreneurs in general, and to low-income women microentrepreneurs in particular. This book contributes to an improved understanding of the new field of microfinance.
dc.format.extent174;192
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0012539
dc.identifier.isbn9781886938151
dc.identifier.urlhttps://publications.iadb.org/publications/english/document/Money-Matters-Reaching-Women-Microentrepreneurs-with-Financial-Services.pdf
dc.identifier.urlhttps://publications.iadb.org/publications/spanish/document/Dinero-que-cuenta-Servicios-financieros-al-alcance-de-la-mujer-microempresaria.pdf
dc.language.isoen
dc.mediumAdobe PDF
dc.publisherInter-American Development Bank
dc.subjectPoverty
dc.subjectFinancial Sector
dc.subjectMicrobusiness
dc.subjectWomen
dc.subject.keywordsmicrocrédito, cooperativos de ahorro y crédito, bancos comerciales, microempresas, microfinanzas, organizaciones no gubernamentales, ong, género, equidad de género;Credit, credit unions, savings mobilization, commercial banks, microfinance, microenterprise, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), formal financial institutions, interest rates, financial services
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