TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dichter, Thomas. 
AU  - Harper, Malcolm. 
TI  - What's wrong with microfinance? / 
SN  - 9788131601532 (pbk.)
U1  - 332.28 WHA 23
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Rugby, Warwickshire, UK
PB  - Practical Action Publishing, 
KW  - Microfinance
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Can microcredit make an already slippery slope more slippery? : some lessons from the social meaning of debt /​ Thomas Dichter
Is microdebt good for poor people? : a note on the dark side of microfinance /​ David Hulme
Imagining microfinance more boldly : unleashing the true potential of microfinance /​ Imran Matin, Munshi Sulaiman and M.A. Saleque
What's wrong with groups? /​ Malcolm Harper
Finance begins with savings, not loans /​ Hugh Allen
'Institutional suspicion' : the management and governance challenge in user-owned microfinance groups /​ Susan Johnson and Namrata Sharma
SHG's in India : numbers yes, poverty outreach and empowerment, partially /​ Frances Sinha
Microfinance and farmers : do they fit? /​ Malcolm Harper
The moneylender's dilemma /​ Kim Wilson
Princes, peasants and pretenders : the past and future of African microfinance /​ Paul Rippey
Microfinance under crisis conditions : the case of Bolivia /​ Irina Aliaga and Paul Mosley
Methodenstreit and sustainability in microfinance : generalizations describing institutional frameworks /​ J.D. von Pischke
Microfinance : some conceptual and methodological problems /​ David Ellerman
Learning from the Andhra Pradesh crisis /​ Prabhu Ghate
The chicken and egg dilemma in microfinance : an historical analysis of the sequence of growth and credit in the economic development of the 'north' /​ Thomas Dichter
A practitioner's view of the challenges facing NGO-based microfinance in Bangladesh /​ S.M. Rahman
De-industrialization and social disintegration in Bosnia /​ Milford Bateman
Measuring the impact of microfinance /​ Richard L. Meyer
From microcredit to livelihood finance /​ Vijay Mahajan
Opportunity and evolution for microfinance /​ Mary Houghton and Ronald Grzywinski
N2  - Contributed articles.; 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.--Publisher
UR  - http://openisbn.com/isbn/9781853396670/
ER  -