Elisabeth Rhyne

Elisabeth Rhyne is the Managing Director of the Center for Financial Inclusion. As senior vice president of ACCION International since 2000, Ms. Rhyne was responsible for ACCION’s initial entry into Africa and India. She directed the organization’s research efforts to develop new financial products and managed ACCION’s publications and educational activities. Recognized as a leading thinker and writer in the field of microfinance, Ms. Rhyne has published numerous articles and four books on the topic, including Mainstreaming Microfinance: How Lending to the Poor Began, Grew and Came of Age in Bolivia (Kumarian Press, 2001). She was also co-editor of The New World of Microenterprise Finance (Kumarian, 1994), which provided the introduction to microfinance for many of the field’s current professionals. Check Elisabeth Rhyne out at www.accion.org .

Books by Elisabeth Rhyne :

		The Commercialization of Microfinance Balancing Business and Development Edited by Deborah Drake, Elisabeth Rhyne 336 pages, 6" x 9", July 2002 Cloth, 978 1 56549 154 0, $29.95 Paper, 978 1 56549 153 3, $29.95

		Mainstreaming Microfinance How Lending to the Poor Began, Grew and Came of Age in Bolivia Elisabeth Rhyne 272 pages, 6" x 9", May 2001 Cloth, 978 1 56549 127 4, $69.95 Paper, 978 1 56549 126 7, $25.95

		The New World of Microenterprise Finance Building Healthy Financial Institutions for the Poor Edited by Maria Otero, Elisabeth Rhyne 318 pages, 6" x 9", March 1994 Paper, 978 1 56549 030 7, $29.95