Introduction : enfolding the poor -- Entrepreneurship and work at the "bottom of the pyramid" -- From social banking to financial inclusion -- The reluctant moneylender -- The domestication of microfinance -- Financial risk and the moral economy of credit -- Insured death, precarious life

This paper is an attempt to analyse the nature and extent of social exclusion across regions, ethno-linguistic groups and different professions in Pakistan. By using household level data of Pakistan Social and Living Standard Measurement Survey, we have constructed Social Exclusion Index as well...

In recent years, sub-Saharan Africa has come to play an increasingly peripheral part in the world economy. The economic crisis has eroded the legitimacy of the state, and the crisis and structural adjustment measures are having an adverse effect on the poorest people in the poorest countries....