Handbook of Microfinance, The - Hardcover

Beatriz Armendariz

 
9789814295659: Handbook of Microfinance, The
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 9814295655 ISBN 13: 9789814295659
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company, 2011

Synopsis

"Handbook of Microfinance" addresses the gap between clients who are benefiting from access to financial services via MFIs, and the potential market, which remains undeserved or untapped. This gap can be attributed to a mismatch between what consumers, or potential clients, demand and what MFIs offer in terms of financial products. The scope of the book is wide. It includes successes and failures, main challenges and debates, methodologies for impact evaluation via random trials, leading trends in Asia versus Latin America, main efforts in Africa, the importance of value chains in Central America, ethical and gender issues, savings, microinsurance, governance, commercialization trends and the potential advantages and disadvantages of it. Lastly it features main lessons from informal finance and 19th-century credit cooperatives addressing the above-mentioned mismatch.

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Handbook of Microfinance addresses the gap between clients who are benefiting from access to financial services via MFIs, and the potential market, which remains underserved or untapped. This gap can be attributed to a "mismatch" between what consumers, or potential clients, demand and what MFIs offer in terms of financial products.

The scope of the book is wide. It includes successes and failures, main challenges and debates, methodologies for impact evaluation via random trials, leading trends in Asia versus Latin America, main efforts in Africa, the importance of value chains in Central America, ethical and gender issues, savings, microinsurance, governance, commercialization trends and the potential advantages and disadvantages of it. Lastly it features main lessons from informal finance and 19th-century credit cooperatives addressing the above-mentioned mismatch.

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Publisher
World Scientific Publishing Company
Publication date
2011
Language
English
ISBN 10 
9814295655
ISBN 13 
9789814295659
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
704
Editor
Beatriz Armendariz, Marc Labie