The credibility of microcredit : studies of impact and performance / / edited by Dwight Haase.

• TeilnehmendeR: Haase, Dwight.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Pullulating from a handful of isolated experiments in the 1970's to a sophisticated network of over 140 million borrowers today, microfinance is a synecdoche for global trends toward market-based solutions to social problems. But in recent years economic crises and political attacks have raised doubts about its efficacy, begetting polemic debates and sometimes baseless assertions from both supporters and detractors of microfinance. The Credibility of Microcredit offers a more objective assessment of the merits and shortfalls of microfinance around the world by way of interdisciplinary research. It features works from leading researchers in the field of microfinance, as well as new names who complement one another’s work with a variety of methods and theoretical approaches. Contributors include: Britta Augsburg, Gwendolyn Alexander Tedeschi, Jonathan Bauchet, Cyril Fouillet, Soren Hauge, Dean Karlan, Jonathan Morduch, Michael Pisani, Sujata Shetty, Elisabeth Vik, and David Yoskowitz. Reprint of some articles published in the journal Perspectives on Global Development and Technology , 2010, volume 9, No. 3-4.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Contributors -- Introduction: Microcredit and Credibility / Dwight Haase -- In Numbers We Trust: Measuring Impact or Institutional Performance? / Elisabeth Vik -- Selective Knowledge: Reporting Biases in Microfinance Data / Jonathan Bauchet and Jonathan Morduch -- Cross-Sectional Impact Analysis: Bias from Dropouts / Gwendolyn Alexander Tedeschi and Dean Karlan -- Household, Group, and Program Factors in Group-Based Agricultural Credit Delinquency / Soren Hauge -- The Efficacy of Microfinance at the Sectoral Level: Urban Pulperías in Matagalpa, Nicaragua / Michael J. Pisani and David W. Yoskowitz -- Microcredit, Poverty, and Empowerment: Exploring the Connections / Sujata Shetty -- Profit Empowerment: The Microfinance Institution’s Mission Drift / Britta Augsburg and Cyril Fouillet -- Conclusion: Impact and Performance / Dwight Haase -- Index.