Speeches & Articles 

The following is a selection of bylined articles and speeches in by ACCION staff.

• The Role of Remittances in Leveraging Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean - Testimony on March 7, 2007, of Dr. Elisabeth Rhyne, Senior Vice President, ACCION International before the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade and Technology of the Committee on Financial Services
  
• Navigating the Evolution of Microfinance: Using Business & Technology for Global Good - Speech given by ACCION International President and CEO, María Otero, at 2006 NetImpact Conference in Chicago, IL on October 27. María shares her thoughts on what microfinance has accomplished to date, the clients that ACCION reaches currently, and what ACCION believes it will need in the next ten years to expand microfinance to all who need it.
  
• Microfinance: Mobilizing Markets to Fight Poverty, The Latin American Experience - Speech by former ACCION International CEO Michael Chu at the International Development Bank Meeting in Brazil on March 31, 2006.
  
• Microfinanzas: Movilizando los mercados para combatir la pobreza, La experiencia de America Latina - Discurso por presidente anterior de ACCION International, Michael Chu, durante el reunion anual del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo en 31 marzo 2006 en Brasil.
  
• Executive Summary: Microfinance Through the Next Decade: Envisioning the Who, What, Where, When and How - Summary of the study presented by María Otero, president & CEO of ACCION International, and Beatriz Marulanda, at the Latin America/Caribbean Region Microcredit Summit Meeting of Councils (LACRMS) in Santiago, Chile, April 19-22, 2005.
  
• Microfinance Through the Next Decade: Envisioning the Who, What, Where, When and How - Study presented by María Otero, president & CEO of ACCION International, and Beatriz Marulanda, at the Latin America/Caribbean Region Microcredit Summit Meeting of Councils (LACRMS) in Santiago, Chile, April 19-22, 2005.
  
• The Power of Microfinance, the Experience of ACCION International - Speech given by Maria Otero, ACCION International President and CEO, in Basle, Switzerland on April 8, 2005.
  
• Lessons and Trends of Microcredit in the United States - Speech given by Bill Burrus, President and CEO of ACCION USA, at the CEAMI conference "Microcredit in Developed Countries: Problems, Challenges and Proposals" in Madrid, Spain on March 16-17, 2005.
  
• The Future of Microfinance: Creating Financial Services to Serve the Poor Majority - Keynote speech given by María Otero, President and CEO of ACCION International, at the 8th Annual Conference of the BYU Center for Economic Self-Reliance on March 11, 2005.
  
• Twenty Years of Microfinance Work & Future Challenges - Speech given by María Otero, president & CEO of ACCION International, at the Inter-American Development Bank's 5th Annual Forum on Microenterprise Development in Rio de Janeiro, September 10, 2002.
  
• The Experience of Microfinance Institutions with Supervision and Regulation - Speech given by Elisabeth Rhyne, senior vice president for Research, Development & Policy at ACCION International, at the Inter-American Development Bank's 5th Annual Forum on Microenterprise Development in Rio de Janeiro, September 10, 2002.
  
• Microenterprise Development in the United States: Closing the Demand Gap - Article written by William Burrus, president & CEO, ACCION USA. A version of this article was published in the Spring 2002 issue of The Journal of Microfinance.
  
• Cumbre de Microcrédito: La Experiencia Latinoamericana - Speech given by María Otero, president & CEO of ACCION International, at the Microcredit Summit in Puebla, Mexico, October 9, 2001. In Spanish only.
  
• Crisis in Bolivian Microfinance - Article written by Elisabeth Rhyne, senior vice president for Research, Development & Policy at ACCION International, published in the September 2001 issue of Monday Developments.
  
• How ACCION USA Creates Partnerships with Commercial Banks - Article written by William Burrus, president & CEO, ACCION USA, published in the summer 2001 issue of Community Developments, a publication of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, U.S. Treasury.
  
• Creating Permanent Links Between Development and Finance - Article written by María Otero, president & CEO of ACCION International, published in the June 2001 issue of the World Bank Group SME Department's SME Issues.
  
• Microenterprise: How Can We Serve Hundreds of Thousands of Low-Income People Annually? - Speech given by Bill Burrus, president & CEO of ACCION USA, at the 2001 annual conference of the Association for Enterprise Opportunity.
  
• Las Mejores Practicas de las Microfinanzas en el Mundo - Speech given by María Otero, president & CEO of ACCION International, at the 2001 Congress of the Peruvian Federation of Municipal Credit in Lima, Peru. In Spanish only.
  
• What's So Important About Sustainability? - Article written by staff member Mandeliene Smith for the winter 1998 issue of ACCION International's newsletter, Ventures.
  
• Bringing Development Back into Microfinance - Speech given by María Otero (executive vice president of ACCION International 1992-99, current president & CEO), at Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany in September 1999, and reprinted in the fall 1999 issue of the Microfinance Journal.
  
• Policies to Empower Women - Speech given by María Otero (executive vice president of ACCION International, 1992-99, current president & CEO), at the Microcredit Summit in June 1998.
  
• Reflections on Accessing Capital Markets - Paper written and presented by Michael Chu, president & CEO of ACCION International (1994-99), at the 4th Annual Conference of the MicroFinance Network in 1996.

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