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Governance
Grameen Bank
Institutions
International Relations
Language_English
Micro-credit
Micro-loan
Microfinance
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Poverty
Povery Alleviation
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Product details
- ISBN 9781498517522
- Weight: 417g
- Dimensions: 159 x 238mm
- Publication Date: 29 Dec 2015
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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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.
Brian Warby is assistant professor of political science at the University of Northern Iowa.
