La microfinance en Asie. Entre traditions et innovations

Thierry Pairault (), Jean-Michel Servet, Isabelle Guérin, Kamala Marius-Gnanou (), Xuchao Jiang, Changfeng Ding, Anne-Claude Creusot, Christine Poursat, François Doligez, Jane Palier, Elisabeth Hofmann (), Thi Thanh Quynh Tran and Quoc Tuan Luong
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Thierry Pairault: CCJ - Chine, Corée, Japon - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - UPD7 - Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Jean-Michel Servet: IUED - Institut universitaire d'études du développement - Institut Universitaire d'Etudes du Développement
Kamala Marius-Gnanou: ADES - Aménagement, Développement, Environnement, Santé et Sociétés - Université Bordeaux Segalen - Bordeaux 2 - UBM - Université Bordeaux Montaigne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: Asia, land of traditions, is also a vast laboratory where micro-financial practices and institutions actively contribute in the battle against financial exclusion, supporting the poorest people, encouraging the "empowerment" of the least fortunate and favouring economic growth in the least wealthy countries by creating activities of production and trade. This book evaluates policies and experiments in India, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and China. It judges them mainly through three lines of reflection: the institutionalisation of social practices, the articulation of public policy and the fight against inequality and discrimination. This book presents the reader with a kind of co-production, consisting of hybrids, mixes, crossovers and borrowings, where "traditions" and "innovations" are mutually enriching. The authors conclude by asking questions about the future. Without being pessimistic, they nevertheless can see clearly through the reigning optimism about reaching the millennium objectives in the battle against poverty, and they do not try to cover up the weaknesses.

Keywords: Asie; Cambodge; Asia; Chine; Cambodia; Inde; China; Laos; India; Vietnam; microfinance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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Published in Karthala, pp.228, 2005, Tropiques

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