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Handbook of microfinance, financial inclusion and development /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Hartarska, Valentina (Editor), Cull, Robert J. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cheltenham, Glos Northampton, Massachusetts : Edward Elgar Publishing, [2023]
Series:Elgar handbooks in development.
Subjects:
Microfinance.
Financial exclusion.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Introduction
  • 1. Overview of microfinance, financial inclusion, and development / Robert Cull and Valentina Hartarska
  • Part II. Conceptual frameworks for microfinance, financial inclusion, and development
  • 2. Rethinking poverty, household finance, and microfinance / Jonathan Morduch
  • 3. Assessment of microfinance institutions and their impact: Evidence from a scientometric study / Begoña Gutiérrez-Nieto and Carlos Serrano-Cinca
  • 4. Financial inclusion and gender / Isabelle Guérin
  • 5. Toward a theory of fair interest rates on microcredit: Balancing the needs of clients and institutions / Marek Hudon and Joakim Sandberg
  • 6. Resilience in emergencies, savings, and credit / Saniya Ansar, Jake Hess, and Leora Klapper
  • 7. When is financial education successful? Taking stock of the new wave of field evidence / Bilal Zia
  • Part III. Delivering financial services to clients
  • 8. Group lending in theory and practice / Christian Ahlin and Godwin Debrah
  • 9. Alternative delivery channels and impacts: Agent banking / Sinja Buri, Robert Cull, and Xavier Giné
  • 10. Digital financial inclusion and development / Greta Bull and Leora Klapper
  • 11. Building inclusive value chains for smallholders: The role of finance / Alan de Brauw and Johan Swinnen
  • 12. Index insurance for developing countries: A primer / Mario J. Miranda and Denis Nadolnyak
  • Part IV. View from practitioners and funders
  • 13. Measuring the evolution of client vulnerability: Innovation at the bbva microfinance foundation / Claudio Gonzalez-Vega, Laura Mo, and Giovanni di Placido
  • 14. An investor's perspective on measuring and managing social performance and impact / Gregor Dorfleitner, Dina Pons, and Noémie Renier
  • Part V. Evidence from regions and countries
  • 15. Financial inclusion in high-income countries: Gender gap or poverty trap? / Anastasia Cozarenco and Ariane Szafarz
  • 16. Financial literacy and the use of financial services by us households / James R. Barth, Valentina Hartarska, Jitka Hilliard, and Nguyen Nguyen
  • 17. Financial inclusion, microfinance, and financial education in Latin America / Alejandro Javier Micco Aguayo and Patricio Andrés Valenzuela Aros
  • 18. Gender and financial inclusion in Latin America and the Caribbean / Victor Motta
  • 19. Inclusive finance and agricultural development in Africa / Calum G. Turvey and Apurba Shee
  • 20. Evaluating digital financial inclusion: A Kenyan perspective on morality and finance / Susan Johnson and Silvia Storchi
  • 21. Inclusive finance and inclusive rural transformation in China / Calum G. Turvey
  • 22. Does microfinance cause banking sector development and economic growth? An application to mongolia / Batkhuyag Myagmar, Robert Lensink, and Wim Heijman
  • 23. Financial inclusion and poverty: Evidence from armenia / Aleksandr Grigoryan, Knar Khachatryan, Knarik Ayvazyan, and Pundarik Mukhopadhaya
  • Index.