Brian Warby

Politics, Poverty, and Microfinance (eBook, PDF)

How Governments Get in the Way of Helping the Poor

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216325307
• Artikelnr.: 74842980

Autorenporträt

Brian Warby is assistant professor of political science at the University of Northern Iowa.

Inhaltsangabe

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