Buch, Englisch, 520 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 668 g
From Financial Inclusion to Sustainable Development.
Buch, Englisch, 520 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 668 g
ISBN: 978-3-8382-0252-5
Verlag: ibidem
Microfinance, a grass-roots movement to provide credit to the neediest, can greatly help to dismantle at least some of these poverty traps, and thousands of mostly small institutions are competing in a market where demand from the poorest for financial services is potentially unlimited – while supply is not.
While the success of microfinance, often ignited by foreign aid funding, has gone beyond any expectation, enormous problems are still on the ground. The road towards what is now considered microfinance’s optimal goal – maximization of outreach to the poorest, combined with financial self-sustainability – is still full of obstacles.
Prof. Moro Visconti's book, covering a vacuum in the existing literature, considers state-of-the-art microfinance within a broader framework of sustainable and long-term socio-economic development. With an innovative and reader friendly approach, Moro Visconti introduces the reader to the multidimensional causes of poverty and possible remedies. A cultural approach to the poverty traps, mixing its anthropological causes with possible bottom-up remedies, including microfinance, emerges as a stunning innovation.
The book aims at a broad readership from practitioners to students and academics, as well as readers simply interested in solutions to the world-wide poverty problems.
Zielgruppe
The book aims at a broad readership from practitioners to students and academics, as well as readers simply interested in solutions to the world-wide poverty problems.