What's Wrong with Microfinance? - Tapa blanda

Dichter, Thomas; Harper, Malcolm

 
9781853396670: What's Wrong with Microfinance?
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ISBN 10: 1853396672 ISBN 13: 9781853396670
Editorial: Practical Action Publishing, 2007

Sinopsis

Microfinance has been a long-lived development fashion and in 2005 it enjoyed the accolade of a UN International Year. Many of the world''s biggest multinational banks are now eagerly committing quite substantial sums to it, for business as well as public relations purposes. However, there are some important problems which risk being ignored or are fleetingly observed but then swept under the carpet in the current euphoria. The authors sound a timely and overdue warning to governments, bankers, donors and the general public and urges people to pause, reassess their expectations, re-think some policies and to recognise that microfinance is never a panacea and may sometimes be actively damaging to its intended customers. This important book will be of interest to students of microfinance, microfinance practitioners internationally, bankers, government ministries and NGO donor agencies, training institutions, and academics in finance, economics and sociology.

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Acerca de los autores

Thomas Dichter has spent half of his 40-year career in international development working in microfinance on three continents. From 1994 to 1998 he was senior consultant to the World Bank’s ‘Sustainable Banking With the Poor’ project. He is the author of Despite Good Intentions: Why Development Assistance to the Third World has Failed.

Malcolm Harper taught at Cranfield School of Management until 1995, and since then has worked mainly in India. He has published on enterprise development and microfinance. He was Chairman of Basix Finance from 1996 until 2006, and is Chairman of M-CRIL, the microfinance credit rating agency.

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Editorial
Practical Action Publishing
Año de publicación
2007
Idioma
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ISBN 10 
1853396672
ISBN 13 
9781853396670
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
288
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