{"title":"The challenges of social investment through the lens of microfinance","authors":"J. Morduch, Timothy N. Ogden","doi":"10.4337/9781788114226.00009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788114226.00009","url":null,"abstract":"Commercialization has been a terrible wrong turn for microfinance, and it indicates a worrying “mission drift” in the motivation of those lending to the poor. Poverty should be eradicated, not","PeriodicalId":227453,"journal":{"name":"A Research Agenda for Financial Inclusion and Microfinance","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131725421","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Microfinance and management theory","authors":"B. Hathaway, Tyler Wry","doi":"10.4337/9781788114226.00010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788114226.00010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":227453,"journal":{"name":"A Research Agenda for Financial Inclusion and Microfinance","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123730505","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Microfinance and governance","authors":"N. Hermes","doi":"10.4337/9781788114226.00023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788114226.00023","url":null,"abstract":"Microfinance is the practice of providing financial services (mainly credit) to the people with low income levels with the objective of improving their economic well-being. Though the jury is still not out on whether this is the universal solution to improve their well being, there are large positive impacts of participation in microfinance observed from various parts of the world. Hence it is attracting a lot of attention of late, from academicians, development agencies, thinkers and practitioners across the world. The course is intended to provide knowledge on the theoretical overview of the practice of microfinance and the various issues and debates on its implementation and effectiveness. The course is expected to address skill sets for appraising, sanctioning, disbursing and collecting micro loans, with a right mix of concern for social welfare and institutional self sustainability. The course also aims at introducing the scholars to basic concepts of microfinance and sensitise them to various problems relating to information asymmetry, property rights and transaction costs by reading and understanding seminal works in the field and bringing in cases and applications from the real world.","PeriodicalId":227453,"journal":{"name":"A Research Agenda for Financial Inclusion and Microfinance","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121215306","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"FinTech and financial inclusion","authors":"Baptiste Venet","doi":"10.4337/9781788114226.00024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788114226.00024","url":null,"abstract":"HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific research documents, whether they are published or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers. L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires publics ou privés. Fintech and Financial Inclusion Baptiste Venet","PeriodicalId":227453,"journal":{"name":"A Research Agenda for Financial Inclusion and Microfinance","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115625618","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Breaking away from normative approaches to financial practices Isabelle Guérin, Solène Morvant-Roux and Jean-Michel Servet","authors":"Isabelle Guérin, Solène Morvant-Roux, Jean-Michel Servet","doi":"10.4337/9781788114226.00011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788114226.00011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":227453,"journal":{"name":"A Research Agenda for Financial Inclusion and Microfinance","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115049730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Mersland, Stephen Zamore, Kwame Ohene Djan, Tigist Woldetsadik Sommeno
{"title":"Internationalization of the microfinance industry","authors":"R. Mersland, Stephen Zamore, Kwame Ohene Djan, Tigist Woldetsadik Sommeno","doi":"10.4337/9781788114226.00022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788114226.00022","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":227453,"journal":{"name":"A Research Agenda for Financial Inclusion and Microfinance","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130064780","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What do we really know about microfinance impact?","authors":"Maren Duvendack","doi":"10.4337/9781788114226.00012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788114226.00012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":227453,"journal":{"name":"A Research Agenda for Financial Inclusion and Microfinance","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114228289","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The role of microfinance and financial inclusion in the quest for environmental sustainability","authors":"J. Bastiaensen, Frédéric Huybrechs, G. Hecken","doi":"10.4337/9781788114226.00015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788114226.00015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":227453,"journal":{"name":"A Research Agenda for Financial Inclusion and Microfinance","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124468359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. . . How microfinance evolved and how research followed","authors":"M. Hudon, M. Labie, A. Szafarz","doi":"10.4337/9781788114226.00007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788114226.00007","url":null,"abstract":"This article is the introductory chapter of the book A Research Agenda for Financial Inclusion and Microfinance, edited by Marek Hudon, Marc Labie and Ariane Szafarz, and forthcoming in 2019 with Elgar Research Publishing. This introductive article written by the editors explains how research in microfinance and financial inclusion evolved together with field practices. It identifies the four periods in the life of the microfinance sector that match four steps in research development: genesis, childhood, adolescence, and maturity. The article discusses whether this evolution could lead to a decline. Finally, it presents the monograph, which is organized along thematic groups of chapters. The titles of the four parts of the book are: “Framing research on microfinance and financial inclusion,” “Social, environmental and financial performance,” “Targets for financial inclusion,” and “Institutional and technological design.” Each chapter is written by scholars whose expertise on financial inclusion and microfinance is recognized internationally.","PeriodicalId":227453,"journal":{"name":"A Research Agenda for Financial Inclusion and Microfinance","volume":"165 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134207659","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Social performance measurement in microfinance","authors":"Bert D'espallier","doi":"10.4337/9781788114226.00014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788114226.00014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":227453,"journal":{"name":"A Research Agenda for Financial Inclusion and Microfinance","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125752656","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}