The credibility of microcredit : studies of impact and performance / / edited by Dwight Haase.
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...
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| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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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.