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The rise and fall of global microcredit : development, debt and disillusion
Title
The rise and fall of global microcredit : development, debt and disillusion / edited by Milford Bateman, Stephanie Blankenburg and Richard Kozul-Wright.
ISBN
1315228696
1351856871
135185688X
1351856898
9781315228693
9781351856874
9781351856881
9781351856898
1138714089
1138714127
9781138714083
9781138714120
Edition
1 edition.
Publication
New York : Routledge, 2019.
Copyright Notice Date
©2019
Physical Description
1 online resource
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
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Biographical / Historical Note
Milford Bateman, Visiting Professor of Economics, Juraj Dobrila at Pula University, Croatia, and Adjunct Professor of Development Studies, St Mary's University, Halifax, Canada. Stephanie Blankenburg is Head of the Debt and Development Finance Branch, Division on Globalization and Development Strategies, UNCTAD. Richard Kozul-Wright is Director of the Division on Globalization and Development Strategies, UNCTAD.
Summary
In the mid-1980s the international development community helped launch what was to quickly become one of the most popular poverty reduction and local economic development policies of all time. Microcredit, the system of disbursing tiny micro-loans to the poor to help them to establish their own income-generating activities, was initially highly praised and some were even led to believe that it would end poverty as we know it. But in recent years the microcredit model has been subject to growing scrutiny and often intense criticism. The Rise and Fall of Global Microcredit shines a light on many of the fundamental problems surrounding microcredit, in particular, the short- and long-term impacts of dramatically rising levels of microdebt. Developed in collaboration with UNCTAD, this book covers the general policy implications of adverse microcredit impacts, as well as gathering together country-specific case studies from around the world to illustrate the real dynamics, incentives and end results. Lively and provocative, The Rise and Fall of Global Microcredit is an accessible guide for students, academics, policymakers and development professionals alike.
Variant and related titles
Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
Other formats
Print version: Rise and fall of global microcredit. 1 Edition. New York : Routledge, 2019
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 07, 2024
Series
Routledge critical development studies
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
An overview
Introduction / Milford Bateman, Stephanie Blankenburg and Richard Kozul-Wright
Development prospects in an era of financialization / Richard Kozul-Wright
Microcredit and development / Milford Bateman
Country case studies
Looking through the glass, darkly : microcredit in Peru / Matthew Bird
Brazil : Latin America's unsung hero / Fernanda Feil and Andrej Slivnik
Colombia: a critical look / Daniel Munevar
Mexico and the microcredit model / Eugenia Correa and Laura Vidal
Is sustainable microcredit in Bangladesh putting clients' livelihoods in the balance? / Mathilde Maitrot
Cambodia : the next domino to fall? / Milford Bateman
The instability of commercial microcredit : understanding the Indian crisis with minsky / Philip Mader
Collective resistances to microcredit in Morocco / Solène Morvant-Roux and Jean-Yves Moisseron
Microcredit as post-apartheid South Africa's own US-style sub-prime crisis / Milford Bateman
Policy implications
Financing development in the global economy post-2015 : an alternative agenda / Stephanie Blankenburg
Conclusion / Milford Bateman, Stephanie Blankenburg and Richard Kozul-Wright.
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