Microfinance in Asia

Christopher Gan and Gilbert Nartea
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Christopher Gan: Lincoln University, New Zealand

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Abstract: Lack of credit access is severe in low income and poor families that are normally considered to have fewer opportunities to borrow from banks due to insufficient valuable assets for collateral. These low-income households face limited opportunity to acquire new technology and working capital for agricultural production and thus tend to fall behind. As a result, providing access to finance to low-income rural households has been considered an important component of any rural development strategy. Microfinance programmes, in particular, have been gradually embedded in national strategies of many developing countries as they are poverty-focused. They aim to facilitate the access to financial services such as credit for the poor who are usually disadvantaged in terms of access to conventional financial services from formal financial institutions. The objective of this book is to provide an overview of microfinance programmes in Asia focusing in particular on the determinants of the accessibility of rural households to microcredit. The book studies seven Asian countries such as China, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia, and Bangladesh with two specific case studies.

Keywords: Microfinance; Poverty Alleviation; Rural Credit; Asia; Grameen Bank (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
ISBN: 9789813147942
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 An Overview of Microfinance , pp 1-22

Christopher Gan, Gilbert Nartea and Judy Li Xia

Ch 2 Rural Credit Market and Microfinance in Vietnam , pp 23-46

Phan Dinh Khoi and Christopher Gan

Ch 3 Microfinance Institutions in Malaysia , pp 47-91

Mohamad Revindo and Christopher Gan

Ch 4 Credit Market and Microcredit Services in Rural China , pp 93-146

Mohamad Revindo and Christopher Gan

Ch 5 Microfinance System in Thailand , pp 147-175

Satit Aditto

Ch 6 Rural Financial Markets and Credit Delivery System in the Philippines , pp 177-226

Salvador P. Catelo, Maria Angeles O. Catelo and Ceptryl S. Mina

Ch 7 Islamic Microfinance in Indonesia , pp 227-270

Bayu Fianto and Christopher Gan

Ch 8 Microfinance Market in Bangladesh , pp 271-306

Mohammad Hasan and Mohammad Malek

Ch 9 Conclusions , pp 307-318

Christopher Gan, Gilbert Nartea and Judy Li Xia

Ch 10 Accessibility and Impact of Rural Credit Cooperatives Microcredit Programmes to Rural Households: A Case Study from Hubei Province, China , pp 319-336

Mohamad Revindo and Christopher Gan

Ch 11 Rural Microfinance Banking Viability and Outreach: A Case of Bank Rakyat Indonesia , pp 337-356

Mohamad Revindo and Christopher Gan

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