Download or read book The Microfinance Revolution: Sustainable finance for the poor written by Marguerite S. Robinson and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2001 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Microfinance is the method whereby financial services and credit is made available to the economically active but low income people of developiong countries. This book focusses on three key aspects of the phenomenon: 1) the shift from government- and donor-subsidized credit delivery systems to self-sufficient, sustainable microfinance institutions; 2) the results on the ground, on the way in which microfinance is helps people expand and diversify their enterprises, increase their incomes, raise their living standards and those of theri families, and boost their self-confidence; 3) the theroretical frameworks that had previously impeded the microfinance revolution, with suggestions for their improvement.