Comments on: Where Microfinance Stands in China http://hausercenter.org/chinanpo/2009/04/the-burgeoning-microfinance-sector-in-china/ Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University Mon, 28 Nov 2011 22:43:24 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Nick Young http://hausercenter.org/chinanpo/2009/04/the-burgeoning-microfinance-sector-in-china/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Nick Young Tue, 28 Apr 2009 05:08:10 +0000 http://hausercenter.org/chinanpo/?p=148#comment-5 It is a bit misleading to suggest that microfinance is in any way new in China; a variety of initiatives have been under way for well over a decade (two decades if you count the government’s own subsidized credit programmes through its Poverty Allevation bureaux; six decades if you count the government’s Rural Credit Cooperatives. The best (although now somewhat outdated) overview of the sector is still provided by China Development Brief. Three key articles for starters: “Banking on reform” http://www.chinadevelopmentbrief.com/node/123 “Searching in the dark for the credit switch” http://www.chinadevelopmentbrief.com/node/814 “Capitalist fillip for new socialist countryside” http://www.chinadevelopmentbrief.com/node/1029 It is a bit misleading to suggest that microfinance is in any way new in China; a variety of initiatives have been under way for well over a decade (two decades if you count the government’s own subsidized credit programmes through its Poverty Allevation bureaux; six decades if you count the government’s Rural Credit Cooperatives. The best (although now somewhat outdated) overview of the sector is still provided by China Development Brief. Three key articles for starters:

“Banking on reform”
http://www.chinadevelopmentbrief.com/node/123

“Searching in the dark for the credit switch”
http://www.chinadevelopmentbrief.com/node/814

“Capitalist fillip for new socialist countryside”
http://www.chinadevelopmentbrief.com/node/1029

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