Microfinance and Poverty: Questioning the Conventional Wisdom

Hege Gulli

No 428 in IDB Publications (Books) from Inter-American Development Bank

Abstract: Microfinance and Poverty probes a set of assumptions that have arisen about microfinance and poverty reduction and that have become the conventional wisdom, although they have not been proven. These assumptions are examined through a review and analysis of theoretical and applied literature on microfinance and poverty. The view of microcredit that emerges is more complicated, but the policies that grow out of this revised view may ultimately prove more effective.

Keywords: Microentrepreneurs, microfinance institutions, credit, financial services, loans, poverty line, solidarity group, financial sustainability, livelihoods, poverty reduction, outreach, trade-offs, vulnerability; Microempresarios, instituciones de microfinanzas, crédito, servicios financieros, préstamos, nivel de pobreza, grupos solidarios, sostenibilidad financiera, reducción de pobreza, alcance, vulnerabilidad (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
ISBN: 9781-886938-45-8
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