Microcredit Research
Research/writing and politics are inseparable. “It is the writer’s duty to hate injustice, to defy the powerful, and to speak for the voiceless.” Academics, therefore, is a call to arms.
Ed Abbey, author of the The Monkeywrench Gang
The campus office where I work. It’s a center of productivity, but also quite a disaster area too. In fact, several years ago, my books were stacked up to the ceiling and the city fire marshal threatened to order the entire Tanner Building closed until I restructured so that there was a foot of open space required by the fire code to prevent possible smoke danger.
- “The Value of Cooperative Efforts in Microenterprise Development: Case Studies in Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia.” Journal of Development Entrepreneurship, 2006 (in press).
- “Microcredit: How it Strengthens American Families.” Chapter in Handbook of Families in Poverty, Sage Publishing Co., 2006 (in press).
- “Alleviating Poverty through Microfinance.” Village Banking Outcomes in Central American, Vol. 43, 2006, pp. 471-477.
- “Evaluating Impacts of Microfinance Institutions Using Guatemalan Data.” Managerial Finance, 2006 (in press).
- “Microcredit in Post-Conflict/Conflict, Natural Disaster and Other Difficult Settings.” Microcredit Summit Proceedings, Washington, D.C., 2006 (in press).
- “Socio-Economic Factors Arising From Peruvian Microcredit. Western Social Science Proceedings, Phoenix, Arizona, 2006 (with H. Rawhouser).
- “Small Fortunes: Microcredit and the Future of Poverty.” PBS Web site text, 2005.
- “Warrior Economics: Financing the Poorest of the Native American Poor.” Native American Policy. Vol. XV, October 2004.
- “Local Development Through Microfinance Tools.” Chapter in Microfinance Institutions: An Introduction. The Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts, ICFAI University Press, 2004.
- “Socio-Economic Results of Microfinance in Mexico and Ecuador“. Utah Academy Journal. Forthcoming (with S. Hiatt).
- “Alleviating Poverty through Microfinance: Banking Outcomes in Central America“. Paper presented at the Western Social Science Association Annual Conference, Salt Lake City, UT, April 2004 (with S. Hiatt).
- “Constructing Civil Society: The Architecture of Social Entrepreneurship for Empowering the Poor“. Presentation at BYU’s 7th Annual MicroEnterprise Conference, Provo, UT, March 2004.
- “Achieving Self-Reliance through Grassroots Microlending“. Published in proceedings of the Society for the Advancement of Management, Baltimore, Maryland. March, 2004 (with S. Hiatt).
- “Microentrepreneurship Impacts in East Africa“. Published in proceedings of International Council for Small Business, Belfast, Ireland. June 2003. http://www.sbaer.uca.edu/research/2003/icsb/papers/184.doc (with S. Hiatt).
- “Innovations in Financing the Poor“. Presentation at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 2003.
- “Local Development through Microfinance Tools in Central America“. Published in proceedings of Society for the Advancement of Socio Economics, Aix-en-Provence, France. June 2003. http://www.sase.org/conf2003/papers.html (Hiatt-Woodworth, pdf, 195 kb) (with S. Hiatt).
- “Trickle-Up Entrepreneurship: Microenterprise Creation in Poor Communities“. Published in proceedings of International Council for Small Business, San Juan, Puerto Rico. June 2002.
- “Microcredit: A Grassroots Policy for International Development“. Policy Studies Journal, Vol. 29, No. 2, 2001, pp. 267-282. Republished in edited book Microcredit and Development Policy. Huntington, NY: Nova Science Publishers, 2001, pp. 15-32 (with G. Woller).
- “Third World Economic Empowerment in the New Millennium“. Advanced Management Journal, Vol. 65, No. 4, Autumn 2000, pp. 19-28.
- Small Really Is Beautiful: Micro Approaches to Third World Development & Microentrepreneurship, Microenterprise, and Microfinance. (Ann Arbor, MI: Third World Think Tank) 1997 (Book, 290 pp.) Second Printing, 1998; Third Printing 2000.
- “Where to Microfinance?” International Journal of Economic Development. Vol. 1, No. 1. pp. 1-29, 1999.
- Journal of Microfinance. Brigham Young University: Provo, UT.
The central purpose of each life should be to dilute the misery in the world.
Karl Menninger