Doing Development in Arkansas: Using Credit to Create Opportunity for Entrepreneurs Outside the Mainstream

by Richard P. Taub

Book Overview

This is the story of the Southern Development Bancorporation, an organization established in 1988 with headquarters in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, for the purpose of stimulating economic and community development in South Arkansas. Richard P. Taub chronicles this experiment in development banking, established by Bill Clinton when he was governor. Based somewhat on the model of Shorebank Corporation, a Chicago bank-holding corporation that had achieved...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557287783
• ISBN13: 9781557287786
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Deeply penetrating look based on on-the-ground research

I met some of the fellows starting this comprehensive project in Arkansas and wondered what had ever come of it. Taub takes a very balanced and deep look full of useful lessons, insights, and analyses that would help anyone in economic and community development...I learned quite a bit and have worked with many of the programs Taub looks at in my own state. Taub's genuinely trying to find what worked, what didn't, and why rather than either praise or blame and spends a lot of time interviewing recipients of the services and other parties rather than just program directors, making a much richer look.