Promoting Microfinance [electronic resource] : Challenges and Innovations in Developing Countries and Countries in Transition /
Manos, R.editor.
Gueyie, J.editor.
Yaron, J.editor.
Promoting Microfinance brings together essays and empirical work by leading researchers and practitioners in the field of microfinance. It covers key issues currently facing the microfinance industry and provides an overview of the microfinance industry in selected countries/regions, pointing to the direction in which it is heading.
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Cover; Contents; Tables and Figures; Notes on Contributors; Part I: The Importance of Innovations; 1 Challenges and Innovations in Promoting Microfinance; 2 The Implications of a Growing Microfinance Market in Latin America and the Caribbean; Part II: Policy Formulation and Regulation; 3 The Microfinance Sectors in Peru and Mexico: Why Have They Followed Different Paths?; 4 A Push Towards Revitalizing Rural Financial Institutions: Lessons from Mexico's PATMIR Project; 5 Regulation and Performance of Ghana's Multi-tiered Rural and Microfinance Industry
Part III: Measuring Impact and Performance6 Micro-credit Access and Household Welfare in Rural Cameroon; 7 A Cost Function Approach to MFI Efficiency: The Role of Subsidy and Social Output Measures; 8 Social and Financial Performance of Microfinance Institutions: A Multi-stage Data Envelopment Analysis Application; Part IV: Coping with Conflicts and Disasters; 9 Designing Apex Organizations in Conflict-affected Environments: An Analysis of Recent Experiences in Bosnia-Hezegovina and in Afghanistan
10 Are Microfinance Institutions and Their Customers Reactive to Disaster Risk? Main Topics and Four Case StudiesAuthor Index; Subject Index
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.
Promoting Microfinance brings together essays and empirical work by leading researchers and practitioners in the field of microfinance. It covers key issues currently facing the microfinance industry and provides an overview of the microfinance industry in selected countries/regions, pointing to the direction in which it is heading.
Accounting.
Bookkeeping .
Business enterprises—Finance.
Finance.
Banks and banking.
Corporate governance.
Microeconomics.
Accounting/Auditing.
Business Finance.
Finance, general.
Banking.
Corporate Governance.
Microeconomics.