Can microcredit make an already slippery slope more slippery? : some lessons from the social meaning of debt / Thomas Dichter -- Is microdebt good for poor people? : a note on the dark side of microfinance / David Hulme -- Imagining microfinance more boldly : unleashing the true potential of...

Through a range of examples of best practice from within the field, this text evaluates, measures and reviews the costs and benefits of small enterprise development programmes. The authors show that it is possible to measure and compare the costs and benefits of small enterprise development...

“Modern” integrated value chains need not necessarily exclude the smallest producers as this book aims to explain in detail by case studies. The issue is particularly topical in India, where modern retailing has come to the scene only recently and the majority of whose population are still...