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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / James K. Galbraith
  • Introduction: setting the scene / Milford Bateman and Kate Maclean
  • Background
  • The political economy of microfinance / Milford Bateman
  • Poverty reduction or the financialization of poverty? / Maren Duvendack and Philip Mader
  • Seduction
  • Pop development and the uses of feminism / Meena Khandelwal and Carla Freeman
  • Petit bourgeois fantasies : microcredit, small-is-beautiful solutions, and development's new anti-politics / Elliott Prasse-Freeman
  • Kiva's staging of "peer-to-peer" charitable lending : innovating marketing or egregious deception? / Domen Bajde
  • Muhammad Yunus's model of social business : a new, more humane form of capitalism or a failed "next big idea" / Milford Bateman and Sonja Novkovic
  • Betrayal
  • Bosnia's post-conflict microfinance experiment : a new Balkan tragedy / Milford Bateman and Dean Sinkovic
  • From tigers to cats? : the rise and crisis of microfinance in rural India / Marcus Taylor
  • The destructive role of microcredit in post-apartheid South Africa / Milford Bateman and Khadija Sharife
  • Public goods provision aided by microfinance : an innovative or a flawed idea? / Philip Mader
  • The "scandal" of Grameen : the Nobel prize, the bank, and the state in Bangladesh / Lamia Karim
  • Agricultural microfinance and risk saturation / Charlotte Heales
  • Alternatives
  • Banking on the difference : credit unions as superior local financial institutions for the poor / Jessica Gordon-Nembhard
  • Microfinance and the "woman" question / Kate Maclean
  • Moral and other economies : Nijera Kori and its alternatives to microcredit / Kasia Paprocki
  • The "solidarity economy" model and local finance : lessons from new left experiments in Latin America? / Milford Bateman and Kate Maclean
  • Conclusion: it's the politics, stupid / Milford Bateman and Kate Maclean
  • References
  • Contributors
  • Index.