Handbook of microfinance, financial inclusion and development. ([2023])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Valentina Hartarska (Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, and Department of Finance, Auburn University, US), Robert Cull (Development Research Group, The World Bank, US).
• Editors: Hartarska, Valentina; Cull, Robert J
• Other Names: Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.
• 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.
• Publisher Details: Cheltenham, Glos Northampton, Massachusetts : Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 332; Microfinance; Financial exclusion; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 1789903874; 9781789903874
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 03, 2023).
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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