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Why doesn't microfinance work? : the destructive rise of local neoliberalism
Bateman, Milford - 2010
Since its emergence in the 1970s, microfinance has risen to become one of the most high-profile policies to address … microfinance doesn't actually work. In fact, the case for it has been largely built on hype, on egregious half-truths and … - latterly - on the Wall Street-style greed of those promoting and working in microfinance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014535147
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Inclusive Value Chains : A Pathway Out of Poverty
Harper, Chairman Malcolm - 2010
Key Features:Reviews 14 detailed case studies of value chains that include the poorest producers and which are profitable for everyoneStudies products including fresh produce, food grains, forest products, fish, poultry and handicrafts, featuring producers from various states/provinces of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012689605
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Money and Violence : Financial Self-Help Groups in a South African Township
Bähre, Erik - 2007 - 1st ed.
This ethnography reveals how, faced with violence, economic insecurity, and volatile relations, Xhosa migrants in Cape Town, South Africa, establish burial societies and credit groups. It examines the urban poor's day-to-day struggles over money in post-apartheid South Africa.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012689092
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Transforming microfinance institutions : providing full financial services to the poor
Ledgerwood, Joanna - 2006
savings, a growing number of microfinance NGOs are seeking guidelines to transform from credit-focused microfinance … Microfinance Institutions" provides guidelines for regulators to license and regulate microfina …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012673474
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Access to Finance : Microfinance Innovations in the People's Republic of China
Bank, Asian Development - 2015
Cover -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Tables -- 1 Regulated Rural and Microfinance Institutions in the PRC, as at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012682097
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Beyond Ending Poverty : The Dynamics of Microfinance in Bangladesh
Khandker, Shahidur R. - 2016
-- Overview -- Can Microfinance Uplift the Poor? -- Inclusive Microfinance -- Assessing the Dynamics of Program Benefits …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012682412
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Microfinance and Public Policy : Outreach, Performance and Efficiency
Balkenhol, Bernd - 2007
Microfinance -- 1.1 Promise and achievements -- 1.2 Efficiency in the microfinance literature -- 1.3 Efficiency: the concept -- 1 ….4 Applicability of efficiency concepts in microfinance -- 1.5 Efficiency versus financial sustainability -- 1.6 Structure of the book ….3 How microfinance can help reduce poverty -- 2.4 Poverty reduction and financial performance -- 2.5 Can microfinance reach …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012679654
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The Microfinance Revolution, Volume 2 : Lessons from Indonesia
Robinson, Marguerite S. - 2001
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part 3: Commercial Microfinance in … Microfinance Revolution Began: Bank Dagang Bali -- 11 How to Fail in Financing the Poor: Bank Rakyat Indonesia's Unit Desa System … Indonesia's Unit Desas, 1984-96 -- 14 Institutional Development for Large- Scale Sustainable Microfinance: The Transformation of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012679770
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Banking on Small Business : Microfinance in Contemporary Russia
Buyske, Gail - 2011
Intro -- CONTENTS -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms -- Introduction -- Microfinance: A Global Overview -- The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012679956
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Banking the World : Empirical Foundations of Financial Inclusion
Giné, Xavier - 2012
-- 13 Use of Biometric Technology in Developing Countries -- 14 Accessing Credit from Banks, Microfinance Institutions, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012687568