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This book shines a light on many of the problems surrounding microcredit and microfinance, in particular the short and long-term impacts of dramatically rising levels of microdebt. Lively and provocative, The Rise and Fall of Global Microcredit is an accessible guide for students, academics, policy-makers and development professionals alike.
Sommario
Contents
Preface
Acronyms
Notes on contributors
Part I: An overview
- Introduction
Milford Bateman, Stephanie Blankenburg and Richard Kozul-Wright
- Development prospects in an era of financialization
Richard Kozul-Wright
- Impacts of the microcredit model: does theory reflect actual practice?
Milford Bateman
Part II: Country case studies
- Looking through the glass, darkly: microcredit in Peru
Matthew D. Bird
- Brazil: Latin America’s unsung hero
Fernanda Feil and Andrej Slivnik
- Colombia: A critical look
Daniel Munevar
- Mexico and the microcredit model
Eugenia Correa and Laura Vidal
- Sustainability paradigm to paradox: a study of microfinance clients’ livelihoods in Bangladesh
Mathilde Maitrot
- Cambodia: the next domino to fall?
Milford Bateman
- The instability of commercial microcredit: understanding the Indian crisis with Minsky
Philip Mader
11. Collective resistances to microcredit in Morocco
Solène Morvant-Roux and Jean-Yves Moisseron 12.
Microcredit as post-apartheid South Africa’s own US-style sub-prime crisis
Milford BatemanPart III: Policy implications
13. Delivering development finance in ‘the time of cholera’: a ‘bottom-up’ agenda for pro-development financial resource mobilisation
Stephanie Blankenburg 14. Conclusion
Milford Bateman, Stephanie Blankenburg and Richard Kozul-Wright
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Milford Bateman, Visiting Professor of Economics, Juraj Dobrila at Pula University, Croatia, and Adjunct Professor of Development Studies, St Mary's University, Halifax, Canada.
Stephanie Blankenburg is Head of the Debt and Development Finance Branch, Division on Globalization and Development Strategies, UNCTAD.
Richard Kozul-Wright is Director of the Division on Globalization and Development Strategies, UNCTAD.
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This book shines a light on many of the problems surrounding microcredit and microfinance, in particular the short and long-term impacts of dramatically rising levels of microdebt. Lively and provocative, The Rise and Fall of Global Microcredit is an accessible guide for students, academics, policy-makers and development professionals alike.
