Can microfinance work?
Subtitle: how to improve its ethical balance and effectiveness
By: Lesley Sherratt
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780199383191
Subjects: Financial institutions; Microfinance; Moral and ethical aspects
Description: 'Can Microfinance Work?' presents a thorough-going and nuanced ethical assessment of the microfinance industry, drawing on the author's expertise in the fields of finance and applied ethics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-213) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I.; title: Empirics.; title: The double-edged sword: the microfinance model and the moral hazards inherent within ;; title: Poverty's panacea, or snake oil salesmen: does microfinance work? -- -- Part II.; title: Microethics: the practices of microfinance.; title: From empowerment to exploitation: MFIs and their borrowers ;; title: From solidarity to coercion: the dynamics of group liability ;; title: The dog not barking: a duty of care in microfinance -- -- Part III.; title: Macroethics: the industry of microfinance.; title: Silenced stories: the distribution of benefits & burdens within microfinance ;; title: Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil: microfinance and the informal economy ;; title: The macro impact of microfinance -- -- Part IV.; title: Making microfinance more ethical.; title: Keeping the good eliminating the bad, transforming the ugly: how to practice microfinance ethically ;; title: Wider lessons: what we can learn from microfinance for antipoverty development efforts.