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Microfinance and Public Policy

Outreach, Performance and Efficiency

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  • © 2007

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Editors:
  1. Bernd Balkenhol

    1. ILO Social Finance Programme, Switzerland

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Efficiency and Sustainability in Microfinance

      • Bernd Balkenhol
      Pages 3-23

  3. Conceptual Framework

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25
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    2. Poverty versus Inequality

      • Amadou Diop, Isabelle Hillenkamp, Jean-Michel Servet
      Pages 27-46

    3. Poverty Reduction through Microfinance: A Capability Perspective

      • Flavio Comim
      Pages 47-59

    4. Achieving Poverty Outreach, Impact and Sustainability: Managing Trade-offs in Microfinance

      • Anton Simanowitz
      Pages 60-71

    5. Smart Subsidies

      • Jonathan Morduch
      Pages 72-85

  6. Conclusions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 209-209
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    2. Policy Implications

      • Bernd Balkenhol
      Pages 211-229
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About this book

Microfinance institutions (MFIs) provide a public good; if MFIs create and deepen markets where none existed before, there may be a case for public support. This book is based on a study of 45 MFIs, and applies factor analysis and cluster analysis to show that MFIs form clusters in terms of social and financial performance.

Editors and Affiliations

  • ILO Social Finance Programme, Switzerland

    Bernd Balkenhol

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THORSTEN BECK World Bank, USA FABRIZIO BOTTI Cambridge University, UK MILASOA CHEREL-ROBSON Cambridge University, UK FLAVIO COMIM Cambridge University, UK AMADOU DIOP Institut Universitaire d'Etudes du Developpement, Switzerland YVES FLÜCKIGER University of Geneva, Switzerland YOUSRA HAMED International Labour Office, Switzerland ISABELLE HILLENKAMP Institut Universitaire d'Etudes du Developpement, Switzerland GIOVANNI FERRO LUZZI University of Geneva, Switzerland SAÂD FILALI MEKNASSI Université Mohamed V - Rabat Agdal, Morocco VITO SCIARAFFIA MERINO University of Chile, Chile JONATHAN MORDUCH New York University, USA JUSTYNA PYTKOWSKA Microfinance Centre, Poland RENATA SERRA Cambridge University, UK JEAN MICHEL SERVET Institut Universitaire d'Etudes du Developpement, Switzerland ANTON SIMANOWITZ Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK ANATOLI VASSILIEV University of Geneva, Switzerland SYLVAIN WEBER University of Geneva, Switzerland

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