Mainstreaming Grameen banking: How rural banks combine sustainability with outreach to the poor in the Philippines

In many countries, Grameen replication has not fared well in terms of outreach and sustainability. There is no country where the Grameen Bank, reaching two million poor women in groups of five and centers of 30 in Bangladesh, has been truly replicated. In The Philippines, rural banks and NGOs-turned-rural-bank have made Grameen banking a highly profitable product with rapidly expanding outreach to the enterprising poor and ultra-poor, mostly women. How did they do it?

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Year of publication:	2003
Authors:	Seibel, Hans Dieter ; Felloni, Fabrizio
Publisher:	Köln : Universität zu Köln, Arbeitsstelle für Entwicklungsländerforschung (AEF)
Subject:	Informeller Finanzsektor \| Ländlicher Finanzmarkt \| Philippinen

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Series:	Working Paper ; 2003,2a
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	387511792 [GVK] hdl:10419/23545 [Handle] RePEc:zbw:uocaef:20032a [RePEc]
Source:	EconStor

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