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ADDITIONAL READINGS

Allderdice, April and John H. Rogers. Renewable Energy for microenterprise. Golden, CO: National Renewable Energy Laboratory. NREL/BK-500-26188. November 2000.
http://www.nrel.gov/villagepower/vpconference/vp2000/handbooks/microenterprise_handbook.pdf

Burjorjee, Deena M., Rani Deshpande, and C. Jean Weidermann. Supporting Women's Livelihoods: Microfinance that Works for the Majority — a Guide for Best Practices. New York: United Nations Capital Development Fund, Special Unit for Microfinance. January 2002.
http://www.uncdf.org/english/microfinance/reports/thematic_papers/gender/supporting/

Cheston, Susy and Lisa Kuhn. Empowering Women Through Microfinance. Washington, DC: Microcredit Summit Campaign. January 2002.
http://www.microcreditsummit.org/papers/empowerintro.htm

Cohen, Monique. Making Microfinance More Client-Led. Journal of International Development, Vol. 14, No. 3, April 2002, pp. 335-350.

Crane, Christopher A. Overcoming the "Poverty of Dignity" with Microfinance. Washington, DC: InterAction, Monday Developments, April 14, 2003.
http://www.opportunity.org/press/mediacoverage/Interaction-%20Mon%20Devel%20Article.pdf

Espenhahn, Sarah & Gil Wilkins. Powering Development, The World Today, Vol. 58, No. 3, March 2002, pp. 22-24.

The Global Development Alliance: Expanding the Impact of Foreign Assistance Through Public-Private Alliances. Washington, DC: U.S. Agency for International Development. 2003.
http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/global_partnerships/gda/pnact008compliant.pdf

Larson, Dave. Microfinance Following Conflict Technical Briefs. Bethesda, MD: Microenterprise Best Practices, Development Alternatives, Inc. September 2001.
http://www.usaidmicro.org/pdfs/mbp/microfinance_following_conflict_main_brief.pdf

Linking the poor to Opportunity: the Microenterprise Development Initiative, Microenterprise Results Reporting for 2001. Report. Washington, DC: U.S. Agency for International Development. March 2003.
http://www.usaidmicro.org/new/MRR2001Report.pdf

Linking the Poor to Opportunity: the Microenterprise Development Initiative, Microenterprise Results Reporting for 2001. Annex. Washington, DC: U.S. Agency for International Development. March 2003
http://www.usaidmicro.org/new/Annexes_MRR2001.pdf

Littlefield, Elizabeth, Jonathan Morduch and Syed Hashemi. Is Microfinance an Effective Strategy to Reach the Millennium Development Goals? Focus Note No. 24. Washington DC: Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest. 2003.
http://www.cgap.org/assets/images/FOCUS24_MDGs.pdf

Microenterpise Development: USAID's Program Has Met Some Goals; Annual Reporting Has Limitations. Washington, DC: United States General Accounting Office. GAO-04-171. November
2003. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d04171.pdf

Prahalad, C.K. and Allen Hammond. What Works: Serving the Poor Profitably, a Private Sector Strategy for Global Digital Opportunity. Washington, DC: World Resources Institute. 2002.
http://www.digitaldividend.org/pdf/serving_profitably.pdf

Robinson, Marguerite. The Microfinance Revolution, Volume 1: Sustainable Finance for the Poor. Washington DC: The World Bank. 2001.

Sebstad, Jennefer and Monique Cohen. Microfinance, Risk Management, and Poverty. Washington, DC: AIMS, Management Systems International. March 2000.
http://www.mip.org/pdfs/aims/wdr_report.pdf

Smith, Julie A. Solar-Based Rural Electrification and Microenterprise Development in Latin America: a Gender Analysis. Golden, CO: National Renewable Energy Laboratory. NREL/SR-550-28995. November 2000.
http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy01osti/28995.pdf

Snodgrass, Donald R. and Jennefer Sebstad. Clients in Context: the Impacts of Microfinance in Three Countries. Washington DC: AIMS, Management Systems Internaional; U.S. Agency for International Development. January 2002.
http://www.microfinancegateway.org/content/article/detail/3262

Stephens, Blaine. Benchmarking Arab Microfinance. Washington, DC: The Microfinance
Information eXchange. December 2003.
http://www.microfinancegateway.org/files/14260_ArabBenchmarkingReport.pdf

van Bastelaer, Thierry. Imperfect Information, Social Capital and the Poor's Access to Credit. Working Paper No. 234. College Park, MD: Center for Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector. February 2000. http://www.gdrc.org/icm/sk-and-mf.pdf

Yunus, Muhammad. Poverty Alleviation: Is Economics Any Help? Lessons From the Grameen Bank Experience. Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 52, No. 1. Fall 1998.