Excerpt from Banking on Small Business: Can the Community Development Bank Model Serve Small Firms in Economically Depressed Urban and Rural Communities?: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Regulation, Business Opportunities, and Technology of the Committee on Small Business, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session, Washington, DC, June 7, 1993 Today, the Subcommittee on Regulation, Business Opportunities, and Technology continues its inquiry regarding the small business credit crunch, and the ability of one lending model, the community development bank, to meet the needs of new or emerging firms of economically depressed rural or urban areas. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.