Intro -- Kitchen Capitalism -- Contents -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Little Businesses, Large Hopes -- 2. Theory and Evidence -- 3. Who Wants to Be a Microentrepreneur and Why? -- 4. Getting Started: Resources for Microenterprise -- 5. The Bottom Line: Business and Household -- 6....

The paper summarizes the state of the art in the field of microfinance for microenterprise, with a focus on examples from Latin America. It reviews lessons learned and offers practical guidelines for donors who want to use their resources wisely. The chief role of the donors is to speed the...