Mark Schreiner, Ph.D., post-doctoral fellow at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work's Center for Social Development, will present a brown-bag lecture on "Programs for Microenterprise Development in the United States: Vuja De?" from noon to 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 4, in Brown Hall Lounge.
Schreiner will discuss how microenterprise programs to train owners of new ventures and to make the owners loans have grown very fast in the United States after decades of experience abroad.
While U.S. programs have repeated some mistakes, some of the fundamental features of U.S. microenterprises and their markets differ from those abroad. U.S. programs for microenterprise development have benefited from experiences of non-U.S. programs, but they still have a lot to learn, and many American problems have not been solved abroad.
The event is free and open to Washington University faculty, staff and graduate students. Participants are welcome to bring their own lunch; soft drinks will be provided. For more information, call 935-7433.
Schreiner's post-doctoral fellowship is being supported by the Ford Foundation's Division of Asset Building and Community Development. He holds a master's degree in economics and a doctorate in agricultural economics from Ohio State University. He is finishing up work on a study for the Ohio State University Rural Finance/Microfinance Group. He has worked as a financial analyst for the World Bank in Argentina and Bolivia, a consultant to the South African government and its Commission of Inquiry into the Provision of Rural Finance Services and as a consultant to the U.S. Agency for International Development in the Dominican Republic.
