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What's Wrong with Microfinance?

Dichter, Thomas, Harper, Malcolm·2007·Practical Action Publishing eBooks
DOI 10.3362/9781780440446
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Introduction 1 Thomas Dichter Part One: Clients 1. Can microcredit make an already slippery slope more slippery? Some lessons from the social meaning of debt 9 Thomas Dichter 2. Is microdebt good for poor people? A note on the dark side of microfinance 19 David Hulme 3. Imagining microfinance more boldly: Unleashing the true potential of microfinance 23 Imran Matin, Munshi Sulaiman and M. A. Saleque 4. What's wrong with groups? 35 Malcolm Harper 5. Finance begins with savings, not loans 49 Hugh Allen 6. 'Institutionalizing suspicion': The management and governance challenge in user-owned microfinance groups 61 Susan Johnson and Namrata Sharma 7. SHGs in India: Numbers yes, poverty outreach and empowerment, partially 73 Frances Sinha 8. Microfinance and farmers: Do they fit? 83 Malcolm Harper Part Two: Institutions 9. The moneylender's dilemma 97 Kim Wilson 10. Princes, peasants and pretenders: The past and future of African microfinance 109 Paul Rippey 11. Microfinance under crisis conditions: the case of Bolivia 121 Irina Aliaga and Paul Mosley 12. Methodenstreit and sustainability in microfinance: Generalizations describing institutional frameworks 137 J. D. Von Pischke 13. Microfinance: Some conceptual and methodological problems 149 David Ellerman 14. Learning from the Andhra Pradesh crisis 163 Prabhu Ghate Part Three: Expectations 15. The chicken and egg dilemma in microfinance: An historical analysis of the sequence of growth and credit in the economic development of the 'north' 179 Thomas Dichter 16. A practitioner's view of the challenges facing NGO-based microfinance in Bangladesh 193 S. M. Rahman 17. De-industrialization and social disintegration in Bosnia 207 Milford Bateman 18. Measuring the impact of microfinance 225 Richard L. Meyer vi CONTENTS CONTENTS vii 19. From microcredit to livelihood finance 241 Vijay Mahajan 20. Opportunity and evolution for microfinance 251 Mary Houghton and Ronald Grzywinski Some final thoughts 257 Malcolm Harper Index 261

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Authors
Dichter, T., & Harper, M.
Venue
Practical Action Publishing eBooks
Publisher
PRACTICAL ACTION PUBLISHING
Published
2007
DOI
10.3362/9781780440446
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W1537114266
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