The Handbook of Microfinance

Edited by Beatriz Armendariz de Aghion () and Marc Labie

in World Scientific Books from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: Handbook of Microfinance

Keywords: Microfinance; Poverty; Microcredit; Informal Markets; Microsavings; Microinsurance; Social Responsibility; Randomized Impact Evaluations; Ethics; Gender; South Asia; Latin America; Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
ISBN: 9789814295659
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Introduction and Overview: An Inquiry into the Mismatch in Microfinance , pp 3-13

Beatriz Armendariz de Aghion and Marc Labie

Ch 2 Microfinance Evaluation Strategies: Notes on Methodology and Findings , pp 17-58

Dean Karlan and Nathanael Goldberg

Ch 3 Spanning the Chasm: Uniting Theory and Empirics in Microfinance Research , pp 59-75

Greg Fischer and Maitreesh Ghatak

Ch 4 The Early German Credit Cooperatives and Microfinance Organizations Today: Similarities and Differences , pp 77-100

Timothy Guinnane

Ch 5 Understanding the Diversity and Complexity of Demand for Microfinance Services: Lessons from Informal Finance , pp 101-121

Isabelle Guérin, Soléne Morvant-Roux and Jean-Michel Servet

Ch 6 Ethics in Microfinance , pp 123-138

Marek Hudon

Ch 7 Microfinance Trade-Offs: Regulation, Competition and Financing , pp 141-157

Robert Cull, Asli Demirgüç–Kunt and Jonathan Morduch

Ch 8 Oversight is a Many-Splendored Thing: Choice and Proportionality in Regulating and Supervising Microfinance Institutions , pp 159-171

Jay K. Rosengard

Ch 9 The Performance of Microfinance Institutions: Do Macro Conditions Matter? , pp 173-201

Niels Hermes and Aljar Meesters

Ch 10 Microfinance in Bolivia: Foundation of the Growth, Outreach and Stability of the Financial System , pp 203-250

Claudio Gonzalez-Vega and Marcelo Villafani-Ibarnegaray

Ch 11 Microfinance — A Strategic Management Framework , pp 251-266

Guy Stuart

Ch 12 What External Control Mechanisms Help Microfinance Institutions Meet the Needs of Marginal Clientele? , pp 267-281

Valentina Hartarska and Denis Nadolnyak

Ch 13 Corporate Governance Challenges in Microfinance , pp 283-298

Marc Labie and Roy Mersland

Ch 14 Corporate Responsibility Versus Social Performance and Financial Inclusion , pp 301-322

Jean-Michel Servet

Ch 15 The Importance of the Link Between Socially Responsible Investors and Microfinance Institutions , pp 323-340

Erna Karrer–Rüedi

Ch 16 On Mission Drift in Microfinance Institutions , pp 341-366

Beatriz Armendariz de Aghion and Ariane Szafarz

Ch 17 Social Investment in Microfinance: The Trade-Off Between Risk, Return and Outreach to the Poor , pp 367-381

Rients Galema and Robert Lensink

Ch 18 Efficiency , pp 383-396

Bernd Balkenhol and Marek Hudon

Ch 19 Social and Financial Efficiency of Microfinance Institutions , pp 397-418

Carlos Serrano-Cinca, Begoña Gutiérrez-Nieto and Cecilio Mar Molinero

Ch 20 Is Microfinance the Adequate Tool to Finance Agriculture? , pp 421-436

Solène Morvant-Roux

Ch 21 What is the Demand for Microcredit? The Case of Rural Areas in Serbia , pp 437-460

William Parienté

Ch 22 Rural Microfinance and Agricultural Value Chains: Strategies and Perspectives of the Fondo de Desarrollo Local in Nicaragua , pp 461-500

Johan Bastiaensen and Peter Marchetti

Ch 23 Women and Microsavings , pp 503-515

Beatriz Armendariz de Aghion

Ch 24 Boosting the Poor's Capacity to Save: A Note on Instalment Plans and their Variants , pp 517-535

Stuart Rutherford

Ch 25 Insurance for the Poor: Definitions and Innovations , pp 537-562

Craig Churchill

Ch 26 Reaching the People Whom Microfinance Cannot Reach: Learning from BRAC's “Targeting the Ultra Poor” Programme , pp 563-586

David Hulme, Karen Moore and Kazi Faisal Bin Seraj

Ch 27 The Gender of Finance and Lessons for Microfinance , pp 589-612

Isabelle Guérin

Ch 28 Taking Gender Seriously: Towards a Gender Justice Protocol for Financial Services , pp 613-641

Linda Mayoux

Ch 29 Higher Education Through Microfinance: The Case of Grameen Bank , pp 643-659

Asif U. Dowla

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