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Title

What's wrong with microfinance? / edited by Thomas Dichter and Malcolm Harper.

Publication

Rugby, Warwickshire, UK : Practical Action Pub., c2007.

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Additional Authors

• Dichter, Thomas W.
• Harper, Malcolm, 1935-

Description

xiv, 271 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Microfinance

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

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 microfinance / Imran Matin, Munshi Sulaiman and M.A. Saleque -- What's wrong with groups? / Malcolm Harper -- Finance begins with savings, not loans / Hugh Allen -- 'Institutional suspicion' : the management and governance challenge in user-owned microfinance groups / Susan Johnson and Namrata Sharma -- SHG's in India : numbers yes, poverty outreach and empowerment, partially / Frances Sinha -- Microfinance and farmers : do they fit? / Malcolm Harper -- The moneylender's dilemma / Kim Wilson -- Princes, peasants and pretenders : the past and future of African microfinance / Paul Rippey -- Microfinance under crisis conditions : the case of Bolivia / Irina Aliaga and Paul Mosley -- Methodenstreit and sustainability in microfinance : generalizations describing institutional frameworks / J.D. von Pischke -- Microfinance : some conceptual and methodological problems / David Ellerman -- Learning from the Andhra Pradesh crisis / Prabhu Ghate -- The chicken and egg dilemma in microfinance : an historical analysis of the sequence of growth and credit in the economic development of the 'north' / Thomas Dichter -- A practitioner's view of the challenges facing NGO-based microfinance in Bangladesh / S.M. Rahman -- De-industrialization and social disintegration in Bosnia / Milford Bateman -- Measuring the impact of microfinance / Richard L. Meyer -- From microcredit to livelihood finance / Vijay Mahajan -- Opportunity and evolution for microfinance / Mary Houghton and Ronald Grzywinski.

Call Number

JBE 08-1949

ISBN

• 9781853396670 (pbk.)
• 1853396672 (pbk.)

OCLC

153576519

Title

What's wrong with microfinance? / edited by Thomas Dichter and Malcolm Harper.

Imprint

Rugby, Warwickshire, UK : Practical Action Pub., c2007.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Dichter, Thomas W.

Harper, Malcolm, 1935-

Research Call Number

JBE 08-1949