The handbook of microfinance /
The Handbook of Microfinance gathers selected work from academics and field practitioners. In an attempt to understand the enormous gap between the limited number of clients that are currently benefiting from microfinance services, and the huge number of potential clients that are not, the selected...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Singapore ; Hackensack, N.J. :
World Scientific,
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction and overview : an inquiry into the mismatch in microfinance / Beatriz Armendáriz and Marc Labie
- Part I. Understanding microfinance practices
- Microfinance evaluation strategies : notes on methodology and findings / Dean Karlan and Nathanael Goldberg
- Spanning the chasm : uniting theory and empirics in microfinance research / Greg Fischer and Maitreesh Ghatak
- The early German credit cooperatives and microfinance organizations today : similarities and differences / Timothy W. Guinnane
- Understanding the diversity and complexity of demand for microfinance services : lessons from informal finance / Isabelle Guérin, Solène Morvant-Roux and Jean-Michel Servet
- Ethics in microfinance / Marek Hudon
- Part II. understanding microfinance's macro-environment and organization context
- Microfinance trade-offs : regulation, competition and financing / Robert Cull, Asli Demirgüc̜-Kunt and Jonathan Morduch
- Oversight is a many-splendored thing : choice and proportionality in regulating and supervising microfinance institutions / Jay K. Rosengard
- The performance of microfinance institutions : do macro conditions matter? / Niels Hermes and Aljar Meesters
- Microfinance in Bolivia : foundation of the growth, outreach and stability of the financial system / Claudio Gonzalez-Vega and Marcelo Villafani-Ibarnegaray
- Microfinance : a strategic management framework / Guy Stuart
- What external control mechanisms help microfinance institutions meet the needs of marginal clientele? / Valentina Hartarska and Denis Nadolnyak
- Corporate governance challenges in microfinance / Marc Labie and Roy Mersland
- Part III. Current trends toward commercialization
- Corporate responsibility versus social performance and financial inclusion / Jean-Michel Servet
- The importance of the link between socially responsible investors and microfinance institutions / Erna Karrer-Rüedi
- On mission drift in microfinance institutions / Beatriz Armendáriz and Ariane Szafarz
- Social investment in microfinance : the trade-off between risk, return and outreach to the poor / Rients Galema and Robert Lensink
- Efficiency / Marek Hudon and Bernd Balkenhol
- Social and financial efficiency of microfinance institutions / Carlos Serrano-Cinca, Begoña Gutiérrez-Nieto and Cecilio Mar Molinero
- Part IV. Meeting unmet demand : the challenge of financing agriculture
- Is microfinance the adequate tool to finance agriculture? / Solène Morvant-Roux
- What is the demand for microcredit? : the case of rural areas in Serbia / William Parienté
- Rural microfinance and agricultural value chains : strategies and perspectives of the Fondo de Desarrollo Local in Nicaragua / Johan Bastiaensen and Peter Marchetti
- Part V. Meeting unment demand : savings, insurance and aiming at the ultra poor
- Women and microsavings / Beatriz Armendáriz
- Boosting the poor's capacity to save : a note on instalment plans and their variants / Stuart Rutherford
- Insurance for the poor : definitions and innovations / Craig Churchill
- Reaching the people whom microfinance cannot reach : learning from BRAC's "targeting the ultra poor" programme / David Hulme, Karen Moore and Kazi Faisal Bin Seraj
- Part VI. Meeting unmet demand : gender and education
- The gender of finance and lessons for microfinance / Isabelle Guérin
- Taking gender seriously : towards a gender justice protocol for financial services / Linda Mayoux
- Higher education through microfinance : the case of Grameen Bank / Asif U. Dowla.