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Microfinance 3.0

Reconciling Sustainability with Social Outreach and Responsible Delivery

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Editors:
  1. Doris Köhn

    1. Senior Vice President Africa and Middle East, KfW Entwicklungsbank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

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  • Gives insight into experts' view of the future of microfinance
  • Brings together the opinions of practitioners, academics, and financiers Highlights current trends and challenges of the sector
  • Refines impact evaluation methods
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XI
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  2. Microfinance in India: Lessons from the Andhra Crisis

    • Vijay Mahajan, T. Navin
    Pages 1-12Open Access
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  3. Armageddon or Adolescence? Making Sense of Microfinance’s Recent Travails

    • David Roodman
    Pages 13-40Open Access
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  4. Core Values of Microfinance Under Scrutiny: Back to Basics?

    • Reinhard H. Schmidt
    Pages 41-67Open Access
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  5. Microcredit Interest Rates and Their Determinants: 2004–2011

    • Richard Rosenberg, Scott Gaul, William Ford, Olga Tomilova
    Pages 69-104Open Access
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  6. Financial Services That Clients Need: The 3.0 Business Models, Reconciling Outreach with Sustainability

    • Robert Peck Christen
    Pages 105-122Open Access
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  7. “Microfinance 3.0” – Perspectives for Sustainable Financial Service Delivery

    • Matthias Adler, Sophie Waldschmidt
    Pages 123-137Open Access
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  8. Microfinance Beyond the Standard? Evaluating Adequacy and Performance of Agricultural Microcredit

    • Ron Weber
    Pages 139-153Open Access
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  9. The Role of DFls in the Emerging 3.0 Responsible Funding Landscape – Responsible Corporate Governance and Beyond

    • Klaus Maurer
    Pages 155-180Open Access
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  10. The Microfinance Approach: Does It Deliver on Its Promise?

    • Eva Terberger
    Pages 181-195Open Access
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  11. Back Matter

    Pages 197-199
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About this book

This book focuses on the achievements, current trends and further potential of microfinance to scale-up and serve many more clients with financial services that enable them to improve their living conditions. The book asks what it takes to achieve sustainable impact: to know your clients and to understand their needs, to treat them in a fair and transparent way, and to safeguard the synthesis between the financial and social dimension of sustainable microfinance. The book also sheds light on the future funding landscape and what is necessary to bring more commercial funders on board while ensuring that these new funders will continue the commitment to responsible finance. While being forward looking, the book reflects the debate on core values of microfinance, triggered by recent criticisms of an approach that was hailed as a panacea in the beginning and which had proved over time as one of the most effective models of development finance. These criticisms emerged over signs of overheating in some markets, particularly the 2010 events in Andhra Pradesh, and turned into an assumption of a worldwide microfinance crisis, putting seriously at stake the good reputation microfinance had enjoyed so far.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Senior Vice President Africa and Middle East, KfW Entwicklungsbank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

    Doris Köhn

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