The handbook of microfinance
By: edited by Beatriz Armendáriz, Marc Labie
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Singapore; Hackensack, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 669
ISBN-13: 9789814295659
Subjects: Microfinance
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction and overview : an inquiry into the mismatch in microfinance / Beatriz Armendáriz and Marc Labie; title: Part I. Understanding microfinance practices; title: Microfinance evaluation strategies : notes on methodology and findings / Dean Karlan and Nathanael Goldberg; title: Spanning the chasm : uniting theory and empirics in microfinance research / Greg Fischer and Maitreesh Ghatak; title: The early German credit cooperatives and microfinance organizations today : similarities and differences / Timothy W. Guinnane; title: Understanding the diversity and complexity of demand for microfinance services : lessons from informal finance / Isabelle Guérin, Solène Morvant-Roux and Jean-Michel Servet; title: Ethics in microfinance / Marek Hudon; title: Part II. understanding microfinance's macro-environment and organization context; title: Microfinance trade-offs : regulation, competition and financing / Robert Cull, Asli Demirgüc̜-Kunt and Jonathan Morduch; title: Oversight is a many-splendored thing : choice and proportionality in regulating and supervising microfinance institutions / Jay K. Rosengard; title: The performance of microfinance institutions : do macro conditions matter? / Niels Hermes and Aljar Meesters; title: Microfinance in Bolivia : foundation of the growth, outreach and stability of the financial system / Claudio Gonzalez-Vega and Marcelo Villafani-Ibarnegaray; title: Microfinance : a strategic management framework / Guy Stuart; title: What external control mechanisms help microfinance institutions meet the needs of marginal clientele? / Valentina Hartarska and Denis Nadolnyak; title: Corporate governance challenges in microfinance / Marc Labie and Roy Mersland; title: Part III. Current trends toward commercialization; title: Corporate responsibility versus social performance and financial inclusion / Jean-Michel Servet; title: The importance of the link between socially responsible investors and microfinance institutions / Erna Karrer-Rüedi; title: On mission drift in microfinance institutions / Beatriz Armendáriz and Ariane Szafarz; title: Social investment in microfinance : the trade-off between risk, return and outreach to the poor / Rients Galema and Robert Lensink; title: Efficiency / Marek Hudon and Bernd Balkenhol; title: Social and financial efficiency of microfinance institutions / Carlos Serrano-Cinca, Begoña Gutiérrez-Nieto and Cecilio Mar Molinero; title: Part IV. Meeting unmet demand : the challenge of financing agriculture; title: Is microfinance the adequate tool to finance agriculture? / Solène Morvant-Roux; title: What is the demand for microcredit? : the case of rural areas in Serbia / William Parienté; title: Rural microfinance and agricultural value chains : strategies and perspectives of the Fondo de Desarrollo Local in Nicaragua / Johan Bastiaensen and Peter Marchetti; title: Part V. Meeting unment demand : savings, insurance and aiming at the ultra poor; title: Women and microsavings / Beatriz Armendáriz; title: Boosting the poor's capacity to save : a note on instalment plans and their variants / Stuart Rutherford; title: Insurance for the poor : definitions and innovations / Craig Churchill; title: Reaching the people whom microfinance cannot reach : learning from BRAC's "targeting the ultra poor" programme / David Hulme, Karen Moore and Kazi Faisal Bin Seraj; title: Part VI. Meeting unmet demand : gender and education; title: The gender of finance and lessons for microfinance / Isabelle Guérin; title: Taking gender seriously : towards a gender justice protocol for financial services / Linda Mayoux; title: Higher education through microfinance : the case of Grameen Bank / Asif U. Dowla.