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Activity 3: Otero, P., (1997) Annex 1 ‘An overview of BancoSol’, Annex 2 ‘Goals and objectives of microenterprise lending institutions and lending methodologies’, Annex 3 ‘Institutional transformation’, Annex 4 ‘Controlling fraud’, Presentation by Pancho Otero to Workshop in Zimbabwe, USAID Conference Report, January, pp. 52–64.

Activity 4: extract from: Engberg-Pedersen, L. (1997) ‘Institutional contradictions in rural development’, European Journal of Development Research, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 183–4 and 188-9.

Activity 5: extract from: Hulme, D. (2010) Global Poverty: How Global Governance is Failing the Poor, (pp 81-82) Oxford, Routledge.

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