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Politics, Poverty, and Microfinance

How Governments Get in the Way of Helping the Poor
  • ISBN-13: 9781498517522
  • Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: LEXINGTON BOOKS
  • By Brian Warby
  • Price: AUD $218.00
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 13/02/2016
  • Format: Hardback 178 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: International relations [JPS]
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This book analyzes the effect that government institutions have on whether or not microfinance contributes to poverty alleviation in the context of Latin America. It concludes that political and economic stability, as well as and law order, have a statistically significant impact on microfinance effectiveness. The conditions that promote poverty alleviation are not entirely the same as those upon which major microfinance investors base their funding decisions. The result is that much microfinance funding is going to the wrong places. This means that not only is microfinance not helping the poor, but under the wrong conditions it actually exacerbates poverty. The author arrives at these conclusions through a mixed methods approach, using both statistical analysis and case studies.
Chapter 1-Introduction Chapter 2-What We Know So Far Chapter 3-A Model of Poverty Reduction Chapter 4-Looking at the Data Chapter 5-Microfinance in Brazil: A Case Study Chapter 6-Is Funding Going Where it can do the Most Good? Chapter 7-The Future of Microfinance
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