| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 266 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Beyond 'ethical' financial services : developing a seal of excellence for poverty outreach and transformation in microfinance / Frances Sinha -- Challenges to the field and solutions : over-indebtedness, client drop-outs, unethical collection practices, exorbitant interest rates, mission drift, poor governance structures and more / Anton Simanowitz -- Social business and microfinance : building partnerships with corporations and other entities to speed the end of poverty / Muhammad Yunus -- Using microfinance plus agricultural services to improve rural livelihoods and food security / Susan Davis [and others] -- Towards reinventing microfinance through solving the "last mile problem" : bringing clean energy solutions and actionable information to the poor / Alex Counts [and others] -- A guided inquiry and discussion : where do you want the field to be in 10 years or more, and what could you or your institution do to get us there? / Dave Ellis |
| Summary |
The current moment faced by the microfinance field reflects the opening lines from Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities : "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness ..." Never before has there been such inspiring innovation in microfinance nor such cause for concern. New Pathways out of Poverty provides a substantive discussion of the state of the field and a compelling vision for its future. Third in a book series spanning a decade that has documented the microfinance industry's highs and lows, New Pathways Out of Poverty expl |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Microfinance.
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Microfinance -- Evaluation
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Poor -- Services for.
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Poverty -- Prevention.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Finance.
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Microfinance
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Poor -- Services for
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Poverty -- Prevention
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Daley-Harris, Sam, 1946-
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Awimbo, Anna, 1965-
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| ISBN |
9781565494398 |
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1565494393 |
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