Subject(s): Banks and banking in Developing countries. -- Credit in Developing countries. -- Small business in Developing countries in Finance. -- Political economy of microfinance : poverty, Self employment, banking for the unbankable -- Asian pioneers of microfinance :Empowering landless poor in Bangladesh, Unit banking in Indonesia -- Informality and microfinance in Latin America : Financing Bolivia's urban informal sector, Informality and microfinance in Peru -- Experimenting with microfiance in west Africa -- Microfinance in Perspective