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1 online resource |
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Dilemmas and Directions in Microfinance Research / Ronny Manos, Jean-Pierre Gueyie & Jacob Yaron -- Microfinance and Microenterprises' Financing Constraints in Eastern Europe and Central Asia / Valentina Hartarska, Denis Nadolnyak & Thomas McAdams -- Through the Thicket of Credit Impact Assessments / Dale W. Adams & Robert C. Vogel -- Assessing Microfinance: Striking the Balance between Social Utility and Financial Performance / Florent B̌ďcarrats & Cecile Lapenu -- Earnings Quality in the Microfinance Industry / Leif Atle Beisland & Roy Mersland -- Culture and Governance in Microfinance: Desa Pakraman and Lembaga Perkreditan Desa in Bali / Hans Dieter Seibel -- Crowd Empowered MicroFinance / Dan Marom -- From a Supply Gap to a Demand Gap? The Risk and Consequences of Over-indebting the Underbanked / Jessica Schicks -- Financing Businesses in Africa: The Role of Microfinance / Shilpa Aggarwal, Leora Klapper & Dorothe Singer -- Microfinance and Agriculture: Challenges, Successes, Prospects / Richard L. Meyer |
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White men's visitations -- The long shadow of the British empire -- Bodily inscriptions and colonial legitimizations -- The half-caste education debate -- Imperial networks in a transnational context -- Coloreds' status in northern Rhodesia -- The fault of our European fathers -- To be or not to be: creating coloredness in the 1950s |
| Summary |
"Microfinance in developing countries" is a collection of studies by leading researchers in the field of microfinance. It discusses key issues that the rapidly growing microfinance industry currently faces. It offers interesting views and innovative analysis of topical matters concerning impact, performance, challenges and innovations in the microfinance realm. Issues relating to impact include measurement problems; the debate of multiple versus single assessment criteria; and the question of whether microfinance institutions are effective in delivering the microfinance promise. Issues relating to performance include the ongoing debate over the balance between social and financial performance; performance measures; and the controversy over mission drift. Issues relating to the challenges faced by the microfinance industry include the problem of over-indebtedness; improving agricultural microfinance; and assessing the role of local culture in the design of an effective microfinance sector. Lastly, topical issues relating to innovations include assessment of technological and financial innovations and the application thereof as well as the continued expansion of microfinance beyond microcredit in developing countries. Together these issues provide an overview of microfinance as it stands today and point to the direction in which it is heading |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Microfinance -- Developing countries
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Bookkeeping.
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Corporate governance.
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Microeconomics.
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Economic policy.
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Finance -- Developing countries.
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Development economics & emerging economies -- Developing countries.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Finance.
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Finance and Accounting.
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Microfinance
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Finance -- Developing countries.
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Development economics & emerging economies -- Developing countries.
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Finance and Accounting.
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Developing countries
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gueyié, Jean-Pierre, 1967-
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Manos, Ronny
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Yaron, Jacob
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| ISBN |
9781137301925 |
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1137301929 |
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9780230348462 |
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0230348467 |
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