Microfinance and Poverty: Questioning the Conventional Wisdom

By Hege Gulli (07/99, En, Es)

Buy the book

ISBN: 1-886938-45-8
124 pp. 1999
English-Spanish
$14.95

Making good use of microfinance in the task of reducing poverty requires understanding both the strengths and limitations of microcredit, and recognizing that other tools and measures are needed to complement it. Microfinance and Poverty probes a set of assumptions that have arisen about microfinance and poverty reduction and that have become the conventional wisdom, although they have not been proven. The view that emerges is more complicated, but the policies that grow out of this revised view may ultimately prove more effective in expanding the outreach and impact of microfinance programs.

Last updated: 06/13/07