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Financial Sector Policy and the Poor: Selected Findings and Issues (World Bank Working Papers)
Patrick Honohan
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Paperback. With global enthusiasm for microfinance, policymakers and NGOs are unaware that mainstream financial sector development is as important for poverty reduction.The author finds that the scale of microfinance is small, contrasts between micro and mainstream finance are exaggerated, and evidence for the pro-poor effectiveness of microfinance is weak. Num Pages: 86 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: KFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 6. Weight in Grams: 172. Library label to spine, with usual markings inside. However, remains good to very good.
With the huge global enthusiasm for microfinance, many policymakers and NGOs are unaware that mainstream financial sector development is just as important for poverty reduction. It is often thought that promoting specialized microfinance institutions is the best or only way forward, but a strong mainstream financial system is also pro-poor; perhaps even more so. The author of Financial Sector Policy and the Poor finds that the scale of microfinance remains very small, the contrasts in style between micro and mainstream finance have been exaggerated, and evidence for the pro-poor effectiveness of microfinance is much weaker than is often supposed. He ... Read more
With the huge global enthusiasm for microfinance, many policymakers and NGOs are unaware that mainstream financial sector development is just as important for poverty reduction. It is often thought that promoting specialized microfinance institutions is the best or only way forward, but a strong mainstream financial system is also pro-poor; perhaps even more so. The author of Financial Sector Policy and the Poor finds that the scale of microfinance remains very small, the contrasts in style between micro and mainstream finance have been exaggerated, and evidence for the pro-poor effectiveness of microfinance is much weaker than is often supposed. He ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
World Bank Publications
Number of pages
86
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Number of Pages
86
Place of Publication
Washington, United States
ISBN
9780821359679
SKU
KRS0020397
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