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What's wrong with microfinance?
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What's wrong with microfinance?

Author: Thomas W Dichter; Malcolm Harper
Publisher: Rugby, Warwickshire, UK : Practical Action Pub., ©2007.
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Thomas W Dichter; Malcolm Harper
ISBN: 9781853396670 1853396672
OCLC Number: 153576519
Description: xiv, 271 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Can microcredit make an already slippery slope more slippery? : some lessons from the social meaning of debt / Thomas Dichter -- Is microdebt good for poor people? : a note on the dark side of microfinance / David Hulme -- Imagining microfinance more boldly : unleashing the true potential of microfinance / Imran Matin, Munshi Sulaiman and M.A. Saleque -- What's wrong with groups? / Malcolm Harper -- Finance begins with savings, not loans / Hugh Allen -- 'Institutional suspicion' : the management and governance challenge in user-owned microfinance groups / Susan Johnson and Namrata Sharma -- SHG's in India : numbers yes, poverty outreach and empowerment, partially / Frances Sinha -- Microfinance and farmers : do they fit? / Malcolm Harper -- The moneylender's dilemma / Kim Wilson -- Princes, peasants and pretenders : the past and future of African microfinance / Paul Rippey -- Microfinance under crisis conditions : the case of Bolivia / Irina Aliaga and Paul Mosley -- Methodenstreit and sustainability in microfinance : generalizations describing institutional frameworks / J.D. von Pischke -- Microfinance : some conceptual and methodological problems / David Ellerman -- Learning from the Andhra Pradesh crisis / Prabhu Ghate -- The chicken and egg dilemma in microfinance : an historical analysis of the sequence of growth and credit in the economic development of the 'north' / Thomas Dichter -- A practitioner's view of the challenges facing NGO-based microfinance in Bangladesh / S.M. Rahman -- De-industrialization and social disintegration in Bosnia / Milford Bateman -- Measuring the impact of microfinance / Richard L. Meyer -- From microcredit to livelihood finance / Vijay Mahajan -- Opportunity and evolution for microfinance / Mary Houghton and Ronald Grzywinski.
Responsibility: edited by Thomas Dichter and Malcolm Harper.

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