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Dear Mr. Crane and

Jeremy — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 09:51:54 -0400

Dear Mr. Crane and Epstein, I am a Political Economic graduating student currently doing my Research and Methods Thesis proposal on How product innovation creates an impact/contributes to the sustainability of microfinance institutions. Im currently focusing on the Philippine setting. Would you happen to have any insights regarding my topic or do you know any published research materials that would be useful for my topic? Hoping you could help me on this matter. Thank you. Jeremy Sigua University of Asia and the Pacific

Crane and Epstein paper

Rob Katz — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:03:19 -0400

Judith - you can find the Crane/Epstein paper at this link.

Where to find - links don't work

Judith — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 06:14:38 -0400

Dear Mr. Crane and Epstein, I'm a Bachelorstudent and I am working as well on a thesis about the success factors of microfinance. Is the paper still available on the web, because the links above don't work. Thanks in advance, Judith

Alleviating Global Poverty Through Microfinance paper

Rob Katz — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 11:47:41 -0500

Alleviating Poverty Through Microfinance - a paper by Marc Epstein and Christopher Crane - is available via the Opportunity.org web site.

Click on the hyperlink above, or copy and paste this link into your web browser; it will auto-open a PDF:

2%7D/Microfinance-Alleviating-Global-Poverty.pdf...

where to find?

Niek — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 11:07:13 -0500

Dear mr. Crane & Epstein, I am a master student conducting research to the successfactors of microfinance, where can I find this paper 'Alleviating Global Poverty through Microfinance: Factors and Measures of Financial, Economic, and Social Performance' you speak of? Thank you in advance, Niek

Alleviating Global Poverty through Microfinance: Factors and Measures of Financial, Economic, and Social Performance

John Paul — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 16:16:16 -0500

Session Title:
Measuring Success at the Base of the Pyramid

Date of talk or publication:
2005

Speaker Name / Title:
Christopher Crane & Marc Epstein

Organization:
Opportunity International & Rice University

Description:
Microfinance has been used as a tool for alleviating global poverty for about 40 years. Billions of dollars have been loaned and the success stories are impressive. But, though microfinance institutions have made many important contributions, the precise nature of these contributions is less clear. Moreover, the question of whether microfinance might be a vehicle through which even greater and more critical contributions to global poverty alleviation might be made wants further research. Two primary sets of questions motivated the present research: