Microfinance in developing countries is a collection of studies by leading researchers in the field of microfinance. It … discusses key issues that the rapidly growing microfinance industry currently faces, and offers interesting views and analysis … of topical matters concerning the microfinance realm. …

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 …

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 …

Cover -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Tables -- 1 Regulated Rural and Microfinance Institutions in the PRC, as at …

-- Overview -- Can Microfinance Uplift the Poor? -- Inclusive Microfinance -- Assessing the Dynamics of Program Benefits …

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 …