Replicating Microfinance in the United States

US researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and grant makers in microfinance and related fields gathered in Washington, DC in October 2001 to discuss reproducing the approach in the US; it has been used across the non-industrial world for two decades. The conference was part of a research project initiated by the Fannie Mae Foundation in 1999. Distributed in the US by Johns Hopkins University Press. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

James H. Carr is senior vice president for innovation, research, and technology at the Fannie Mae Foundation. Zhong Yi Tong is senior research fellow in housing finance and economics. Replicating Microfinance in the United States is based on papers presented at an October 2001 conference at the Woodrow Wilson Center.