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Microcredit Research Research/writing and politics are inseparable. "It is the writer's duty to hate injustice, to defy the powerful, and to speak for the voiceless." Academics, therefore, is a call to arms. --- Ed Abbey, author of the The Monkeywrench Gang The campus office where I work. It’s a center of productivity, but also quite a disaster area too. In fact, several years ago, my books were stacked up to the ceiling and the city fire marshal threatened to order the entire Tanner Building closed until I restructured so that there was a foot of open space required by the fire code to prevent possible smoke danger. "The Value of Cooperative Efforts in Microenterprise Development: Case Studies in Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia." Journal of Development Entrepreneurship, 2006 (in press). "Microcredit: How it Strengthens American Families." Chapter in Handbook of Families in Poverty, Sage Publishing Co., 2006 (in press). "Alleviating Poverty through Microfinance." Village Banking Outcomes in Central American, Vol. 43, 2006, pp. 471-477. "Evaluating Impacts of Microfinance Institutions Using Guatemalan Data." Managerial Finance, 2006 (in press). "Microcredit in Post-Conflict/Conflict, Natural Disaster and Other Difficult Settings." Microcredit Summit Proceedings, Washington, D.C., 2006 (in press). "Socio-Economic Factors Arising From Peruvian Microcredit. Western Social Science Proceedings, Phoenix, Arizona, 2006 (with H. Rawhouser). "Small Fortunes: Microcredit and the Future of Poverty." PBS Web site text, 2005. "Warrior Economics: Financing the Poorest of the Native American Poor." Native American Policy. Vol. XV, October 2004. "Local Development Through Microfinance Tools." Chapter in Microfinance Institutions: An Introduction. The Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts, ICFAI University Press, 2004. "Socio-Economic Results of Microfinance in Mexico and Ecuador". Utah Academy Journal. Forthcoming (with S. Hiatt). "Alleviating Poverty through Microfinance: Banking Outcomes in Central America". Paper presented at the Western Social Science Association Annual Conference, Salt Lake City, UT, April 2004 (with S. Hiatt). "Constructing Civil Society:The Architecture of Social Entrepreneurship for Empowering the Poor". Presentation at BYU's 7th Annual MicroEnterprise Conference, Provo, UT, March 2004. "Achieving Self-Reliance through Grassroots Microlending". Published in proceedings of the Society for the Advancement of Management, Baltimore, Maryland. March, 2004 (with S. Hiatt). "Microentrepreneurship Impacts in East Africa". Published in proceedings of International Council for Small Business, Belfast, Ireland. June 2003. http://www.sbaer.uca.edu/research/2003/icsb/papers/184.doc (with S. Hiatt). "Innovations in Financing the Poor". Presentation at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 2003. "Local Development through Microfinance Tools in Central America". Published in proceedings of Society for the Advancement of Socio Economics, Aix-en-Provence, France. June 2003. http://www.sase.org/conf2003/papers.html (Hiatt-Woodworth, pdf, 195 kb) (with S. Hiatt). "Trickle-Up Entrepreneurship: Microenterprise Creation in Poor Communities". Published in proceedings of International Council for Small Business, San Juan, Puerto Rico. June 2002. "Microcredit: A Grassroots Policy for International Development". Policy Studies Journal, Vol. 29, No. 2, 2001, pp. 267-282. Republished in edited book Microcredit and Development Policy. Huntington, NY: Nova Science Publishers, 2001, pp. 15-32 (with G. Woller). "Third World Economic Empowerment in the New Millennium". Advanced Management Journal, Vol. 65, No. 4, Autumn 2000, pp. 19-28. Small Really Is Beautiful: Micro Approaches to Third World Development—Microentrepreneurship, Microenterprise, and Microfinance. (Ann Arbor, MI: Third World Think Tank) 1997 (Book, 290 pp.) Second Printing, 1998; Third Printing 2000.       Small Really Is Beautiful: Part I       Small Really Is Beautiful: Part II       Small Really Is Beautiful: Part III "Where to Microfinance?" International Journal of Economic Development. Vol. 1, No. 1. pp. 1-29, 1999. Journal of Microfinance. Brigham Young University: Provo, UT. "The central purpose of each life should be to dilute the misery in the world."       --- Karl Menninger