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Politics, Poverty, and Microfinance
How Governments Get in the Way of Helping the Poor
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About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Acronyms
- Preface
- Chapter One. Introduction
- Chapter Two. What We Know So Far
- Chapter Three. A Model of Poverty Reduction
- Chapter Four. Looking at the Data
- Chapter Five. Microfinance in Brazil: A Case Study
- Chapter Six. Is Funding Going Where It Can Do the Most Good?
- Chapter Seven. The Future of Microfinance
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author
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