TY - BOOK AU - Robinson,Marguerite S. ED - World Bank. TI - The microfinance revolution SN - 9780821345245 (v.1) AV - HG178.33.D44 R63 2001 U1 - 332.2 PY - 2002/// CY - Washington, D.C. PB - World Bank KW - Financial institutions KW - Poor KW - Microfinance KW - Microfinance. KW - Open Society Institute N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - The book examines many financial institutions, with a special emphasis on Bank Rakyat Indonesia's microbanking system, which in the mid-1980s was transformed from a failed subsidized credit program to a nationwide commercial financial intermediary that now profitably provides microfinance services - savings and credit - to more than 20 million people. Commercial microbanking remained stable and profitable in Indonesia even as the country's financial system collapsed during the recent crisis ER -