Login
Guest
Search for:
Browse:
Product Information:
Resources:
Contemporary Studies in Economic and Financial Analysis
ISSN: 1569-3759
Series editor(s): Professor Robert Thornton, Professor J. Richard Aronson
Subject Area: Economics
Content: Series Volumes | 
Current Volume RSS
Options: To add Favourites and Table of Contents Alerts please take a Emerald profile
Document request:
The great divide in microfinance: Political economy in microcosm
| Title: | The great divide in microfinance: Political economy in microcosm |
|---|---|
| Author(s): | Bruce E. Moon |
| Volume: | 92 Editor(s): Todd A. Watkins, Karen Hicks ISBN: 978-1-84950-681-6 eISBN: 978-1-84950-682-3 |
| Citation: | Bruce E. Moon (2009), The great divide in microfinance: Political economy in microcosm, in Todd A. Watkins, Karen Hicks (ed.) Moving Beyond Storytelling: Emerging Research in Microfinance (Contemporary Studies in Economic and Financial Analysis, Volume 92), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp.109-144 |
| DOI: | 10.1108/S1569-3759(2009)0000092007 (Permanent URL) |
| Publisher: | Emerald Group Publishing Limited |
| Article type: | Chapter Item |
| Extract: | On the other hand, many practitioners who aim primarily at reducing poverty doubt that unsubsidized services delivered through the market can be cheap enough to benefit the very poorest, who they often conceive as the target of microfinance. These practitioners interpret the unavailability of financial services for the poor as an instance of “market failure” that reflects fundamental limitations of what markets and firms can contribute to poverty alleviation. |
Fulltext Options:
Purchase
Downloadable; Printable; Owned
HTML, PDF (281kb)
To purchase this item please login or register.
Recommend to your librarian
Complete and print this form to request this document from your librarian
|
|
