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Microfinance and Financial Inclusion

Published by: Oxford University Press

This chapter on microfinance and financial inclusion is included in a collection of discussions on leading theories and conceptual debates on poverty, the most salient topics in poverty research, and the far-reaching consequences of poverty on the individual and societal level.

Questioning Three Fundamental Assumptions in Financial Inclusion

Published by: IDS

Financial inclusion has rapidly ascended global development policy agendas. Between 2 billion and 2.5 billion adults worldwide do not use formal financial services (World Bank 2015: v), which a multifaceted coalition of actors is committed to changing.

Developing Norms and Standards for Assessing Business, Social and Environmental Impact

Internal paper funded by UKCDS looking at the norms and standards for assessing business, social and environmental standards.

Assessing the Impact of Multiple Businesses in One Region

Internal paper funded by UKCDS examining the impact of multiple business in one region.

Card Crusaders, Cash Infidels and the Holy Grails of Digital Financial Inclusion

This paper analyses the turn toward financial inclusion in general, and toward digital money and the end of cash in particular, in development policy. It examines the profit-oriented logics at work and raises critical questions about the moral crusade being waged over digitalising poor people’s money.

The Political Economy of Microfinance – Financializing Poverty

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

This book helps to understand the enigmatic microfinance sector by tracing its evolution and asking how it works as a financial system.

Making the Poor Pay for Public Goods via Microfinance: Economic and Political Pitfalls in the Case of Water and Sanitation

Published by: Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung

This paper critically assesses microfinance’s expansion into the provision of public goods.

Financialisation through Microfinance: Civil Society and Market Building in India

This article understands financialisation as the expansion of the frontier of financial accumulation. Microfinance is shown to achieve this expansion by establishing credit-based linkages between owners and borrowers of capital, allowing surplus accumulation to take place via the credit relation

Rendite machen und Gutes tun? Mikrokredite und die Folgen neoliberaler Entwicklungspolitik

Published by: Campus

The first book to collect critical perspectives on microfinance in the German language, this volume brings together researchers, practitioners and journalists for an encompassing assessment of the spread of microfinance and its broader consequences.