In 2008, regarding when the Yunus Model of micro-financing was under attack in its home country of Bangladesh, the Yunan Model was started in rural China.
The original model suffered from inefficiencies, high interest rates and allegations of rudeness against the founder, Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus.By contrast, the Yunan Model relied on social wealth and mechanism design theory to enlist the rural inhabitants, financial institutions and authorities in a cooperative attempt to grow the financial equilibrium and entrepreneurship level of one of the weakest regions of the state.
Could "microfinance with Chinese characteristics" offer a strategy to reduce poverty across China? Author Meng Wu is affiliated with University of Southern California.
PUBLICATION DATE: July 05, 2013 PRODUCT #: W13266-PDF-ENG
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