This paper mainly focuses on finding optimal strategies for the development of microfinance in Korea and on predicting the impact of microfinance in the future.First, this paper reviews and assesses the impact of microfinance in Korea. I suggested that recent phenomena of income polarization and...

This paper provides a critical review of the burgeoning literature on social capital, highlighting a number of serious conceptual and empirical problems associated with this literature. First, the concept of social capital remains largely elusive, with many different ideas attached to it. This...