This case study analyzes the design, delivery, and sustainability of INSOTEC?s technology access services, which are offered to small and microenterprises working in the textiles sector in Ecuador. Three key elements to offering sustainable business development services are highlighted: taking a...

Business development services (BDS) were highlighted as an area for future work in the Inter-American Development Bank?s micro-enterprise development strategy paper, MICRO 2001, which was presented at the Promoting Growth With Equity Conference in November 1995. Since the Bank?s experience in...

The purpose of this report is to provide an overview of current practice in microfinance guarantees, highlighting some of the lessons learned to date and issues to be addressed in the future. The paper?s annexes provide a partial inventory of guarantee funds operating in Latin America and the...

Foreword / by Waldemar W. Wirsig -- Introduction -- Mixed performance -- Differentiated and complex systems -- A typology for distinguishing myth from reality -- Key policy issues -- Between status quo and neoliberal extremes