The Economics of Microfinance (精装)

出版时间：2005-6  出版社：The MIT Press (2005年6月1日)  作者：Beatriz Armendáriz  页数：346  
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内容概要

　　The microfinance revolution, begun with independent initiatives in Latin America and South Asia starting in the 1970s, has so far allowed 65 million poor people around the world to receive small loans without collateral, build up assets, and buy insurance. This comprehensive survey of microfinance seeks to bridge the gap in the existing literature on microfinance between academic economists and practitioners. Both authors have pursued the subject not only in academia but in the field; Beatriz Armendariz founded a microfinance bank in Chiapas, Mexico, and Jonathan Morduch has done fieldwork in Bangladesh, China, and Indonesia.　　The authors move beyond the usual theoretical focus in the microfinance literature and draw on new developments in theories of contracts and incentives. They challenge conventional assumptions about how poor households save and build assets and how institutions can overcome market failures. The book provides an overview of microfinance by addressing a range of issues, including lessons from informal markets, savings and insurance, the role of women, the place of subsidies, impact measurement, and management incentives. It integrates theory with empirical data, citing studies from Asia, Africa, and Latin America and introducing ideas about asymmetric information, principal-agent theory, and household decision making in the context of microfinance.　　The Economics of Microfinance can be used by students in economics, public policy, and development studies. Mathematical notation is used to clarify some arguments, but the main points can be grasped without the math. Each chapter ends with analytically challenging exercises for advanced economics students.

作者简介

Beatriz Armendáriz is Lecturer in Economics at Harvard University, on leave from University College London, where she is Senior Lecturer in Economics.

书籍目录

Preface   ⅨAbbreviations ⅫⅠ1  Rethinking Banking2  Why Intervene in Credit Markets?3  Roots of Microfinance: ROSCAs and Credit Cooperative,,4  Group Lending5  Beyond Group Lending6  Savings and Insurance7  Gender   1798  Measuring Impacts9  Subsidy and Sustainability10 Managing MicrofinanceNotesBibliographyName IndexSubject Index