A Research Agenda for Financial Inclusion and Microfinance
A Research Agenda for Financial Inclusion and Microfinance

Author: Marek Hudon

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published:

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 1788114221

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How can financial services, such as credit, deposit accounts, financial transfers, and insurance be provided to people in need? This challenging and complex issue has been a topic of interest for the international aid community for decades. Drawing on renowned experts in microfinance and financial inclusion, this Research Agenda sheds much-needed light on this multifaceted challenge and points the way ahead for future research.

The Crises of Microcredit
The Crises of Microcredit

Author: Isabelle Guérin

Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.

Published: 2015-10-15

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 1783603771

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Microcredit programmes, long considered efficient development tools, now face unprecedented crises in a number of countries. Is this the end of microcredit or rather an essential step in its expansion? Should we stop microcredit altogether or rethink the way it is implemented? Drawing on extensive empirical research conducted in various parts of the world - from Morocco to Senegal to India - this important volume examines the whole chain of microcredit to provide the answers to these questions. In doing so, the authors highlight the diversity of crises, both in intensity and in nature, while also shedding light on a diversity of causes, be it microcredit organizations unprepared for massive growth, saturated local economies or greedy investors and shareholders attracted by profits. Crucially, the authors demonstrate that microcredit is not a monolithic project, and the crises should also be analysed in the light of national histories and policies. An original and necessary intervention in what has become one of the most contentious topics within the development world.

Due Diligence
Due Diligence

Author: David Roodman

Publisher: CGD Books

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 1933286539

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The idea that small loans can help poor families build businesses and exit poverty has blossomed into a global movement. The concept has captured the public imagination, drawn in billions of dollars, reached millions of customers, and garnered a Nobel Prize. Radical in its suggestion that the poor are creditworthy and conservative in its insistence on individual accountability, the idea has expanded beyond credit into savings, insurance, and money transfers, earning the name microfinance. But is it the boon so many think it is? Readers of David Roodman's openbook blog will immediately recognize his thorough, straightforward, and trenchant analysis. Due Diligence, written entirely in public with input from readers, probes the truth about microfinance to guide governments, foundations, investors, and private citizens who support financial services for poor people. In particular, it explains the need to deemphasize microcredit in favor of other financial services for the poor.

Handbook of Microfinance, Financial Inclusion and Development
Handbook of Microfinance, Financial Inclusion and Development

Author: Valentina Hartarska

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2023-02-14

Total Pages: 495

ISBN-13: 1789903874

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This timely Handbook collates a range of evidence from top scholars in the field to help readers understand who microfinance reaches, how it helps, and why clients come back. It offers updated views on important concepts that enable a broader framework for understanding poverty and the corresponding financial needs of poor households.

A Research Agenda for Economic Anthropology
A Research Agenda for Economic Anthropology

Author: James G. Carrier

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 167

ISBN-13: 1788116100

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The financial crisis and its economic and political aftermath have changed the ways that many anthropologists approach economic activities, institutions and systems. This insightful volume presents important elements of this change. With topics ranging from the relationship of states and markets to the ways that anthropologists’ political preferences and assumptions harm their work, the book presents cogent statements by younger and established scholars of how existing research areas can be extended and the new avenues that ought to be pursued.

A Research Agenda for Housing
A Research Agenda for Housing

Author: Markus Moos

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 1788116518

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Housing is one of the most pertinent issues of our time. Shaped by rapid urbanization, financialization, and various changes in demography, technology, political ideology and public policy, the provision of affordable, adequate, and suitable housing has become an increasingly challenging feat. From high-rise apartment towers constructed in global cities around the world to informal settlements rapidly expanding across the global south, this volume focuses on how political, economic, and societal changes are shaping housing in a variety of contexts.

A Research Agenda for Global Crime
A Research Agenda for Global Crime

Author: Tim Hall

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 1786438674

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This multidisciplinary collection of essays by leading international scholars explores many pressing issues related to global crime. The book opens with essays that look across this diverse terrain and then moves on to consider specific areas including organised crime, cyber-crime, war-crimes, terrorism, state and private violence, riots and political protest, prisons, sport and crime and counterfeit goods. The book emphasises the centrality of crime to the contemporary global world and mobilises diverse disciplinary positions to help understand and address this.

A Research Agenda for Federalism Studies
A Research Agenda for Federalism Studies

Author: John Kincaid

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2019-12-27

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 1788112970

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In this forward-thinking book, fifteen leading scholars set forth cutting-edge agendas for research on significant facets of federalism, including basic theory, comparative studies, national and subnational constitutionalism, courts, self-rule and shared rule, centralization and decentralization, nationalism and diversity, conflict resolution, gender equity, and federalism challenges in Africa, Asia, and the European Union. More than 40 percent of the world’s population lives under federal arrangements, making federalism not only a major research subject but also a vital political issue worldwide.

A Research Agenda for Social Entrepreneurship
A Research Agenda for Social Entrepreneurship

Author: Anne de Bruin

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 199

ISBN-13: 1788972325

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In the last two decades social entrepreneurship has grown in energy and impact as entrepreneurial spirit has increasingly turned to finding solutions for social, cultural and environmental issues. As social entrepreneurship has grown in popularity, so too has its academic study. A Research Agenda for Social Entrepreneurship brings together contributions from developing paths in the field to signpost the directions ahead for the study of social entrepreneurship.

A Research Agenda for Climate Justice
A Research Agenda for Climate Justice

Author: Paul G. Harris

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 1788118170

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Climate change will bring great suffering to communities, individuals and ecosystems. Those least responsible for the problem will suffer the most. Justice demands urgent action to reverse its causes and impacts. In this provocative new book, Paul G. Harris brings together a collection of original essays to explore alternative, innovative approaches to understanding and implementing climate justice in the future. Through investigations informed by philosophy, politics, sociology, law and economics, this Research Agenda reveals how climate change is a matter of justice and makes concrete proposals for more effective mitigation.