What's New??
[April to December 1995]
- December 1995
- People's Banks: Bangladesh - The Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC)
- People's Banks: India - The Association for Sarva Seva Farms (ASSEFA)
- People's Banks: Expanded coverage on SEWA Bank in India
- Documents (Policies and Programmes): Savings and Credit - Management Control Systems
- Documents (Policies and Programmes): Training needs of community credit groups
- Documents (Policies and Programmes): Guidelines for financial management of a savings and credit group
- Documents (Non-Governmental Organizations): NGO views on NGO Networking
- Document: Is it worth involving the Corporate Sector in development?
- November 1995
- Documents: New sub-category - Programmes and Projects relating to micro credit and community finance.
- Documents: New sub-category - Improving Women's Access to Credit
- People's Banks: Expanded coverage on Grameen Bank - articles, addresses, bibliography etc.
- People's Banks: India's Streedhan
- Document: Flow-Chart Approach to meeting Rural Financial Needs
- Documents: Expanded items in INSPIRING IDEAS section, including more Short Takes
- Resources: Expanded and reorganized items - cooperatives, HungerWeb et al.
- Resources: e-book - "Best Ideas: A Compendium of Social Innovations"
- October 1995
- Documents: New sub-category - Inspiring Ideas in community finance and micro credit.
- Documents: New sub-category - NGOs in community development
- Document: Facilitating Community Participation
- Document: Development Associations and Credit systems.
- People's Banks: Expanded coverage of Grameen Bank
- Resources: e-Book - "History of Money"
- Homepage: A form for comments and suggestions was added in the homepage
- Homepage: Improved layout and better hypertext links.
- September 1995
- Country-specific information revamped and updated.
- People's Banks: Comprehensive updating of list of Credit Unions on the web.
- Homepage: Changed to Open Text Index for searching internet documents.
- Resources: e-Book - "New Money for Healthy Communities"
- Mailing Lists: Information on mailing lists related to community development etc.
- August 1995
- Document: The Credit Delivery System of Grameen Bank, Bangladesh
- People's Banks: Austin Telco Federal Credit Union, and many other CU Homepages...
- Resources: Comprehensive section on cooperatives on the web - homepages, archieves, documents, mailing lists and newsgroups etc..
- July 1995
- Bibliography: Link to PRAXIS references on Social and Economic Development
- Document: "Significance of Establishing linkages with Self-Help Groups and Banks" Y.C.Nanda, NABARD, India
- Internet resources: PRAXIS Resources on SED.
- Search tool - WebCrawler - incorporated into the Virtual Library on Microcredit.
- Document: New Interest in Informal Credit
- Document: People-centered Financial Insittutions - BKK, Indonesia
- June 1995
- Bibliography: Cooperatives
- Internet Resources: Information on Cooperatives
- Mailing Lists: Cooperative-bus
- Document: Supporting Tanzania's Business Women
- Document: Micro Credit Lending Experiences
- Document: Village Banks
- People's Bank: Indonesia's Badan Kredit Kecamantan (BKK)
- ....and links to many other web resources.
- Layout and structure of Virtual Library on Microcredit changed to reduce file downloading time
- May 1995
- Links to resources added: Digital EFCU (US); Idaho Central CU (US); Naval Air FCU (US); more commercial banks; the Norwegian Social Science Data Services; bibliographies updated; and country-specific profiles built further.
- Document: People's Centeredness of Credit: Need for Regional Networks
- April 1995
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- Document: "BAAC experience with joint-liability lending" by Paul Lightfoot
- Document: Borrower Evaluation Criteria in the ICM
- Resources: The LETSystems Homepage
- Document: "Creating Ecological Economics with Local Currency: Itaca's HOURS" by Paul Glover.
- Credit Union: Information on Alternaties Credit Union, Ithaca, NY.
Hari Srinivas - hsrinivas@gdrc.org
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