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Microfinance, rights and global justice /

Microfinance - the practice of providing small loans to promote entrepreneurial activity among those with few financial assets - is increasingly seen as a sustainable means of aiding the global poor. Perhaps its most influential advocate, Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus, has claimed that there is a hu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Sorell, Tom (Editor ), Cabrera, Luis, 1966- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • microfinance, rights and global justice
  • Credit is not a right
  • Is there a human right to microfinance?
  • Financial inclusion, education, and human rights
  • Microfinance, non-ideal theory, and global distributive justice
  • Microfinance, poverty relief, and political justice
  • Is exploitation permissible in microcredit?
  • What's wrong with exorbitant interest rates on microloans?
  • Tensions between financial and organisational sustainability: the problematic case of group-based microfinance and possible ways forward
  • Freedom and credit.