Handbook Of Microfinance, The

On Mission Drift in Microfinance Institutions (B Armendariz & A Szafarz); Rural Microfinance & Agriculture Value Chains: Strategies and Perspectives of the Fondo de Desarrollo Local in Nicaragua (J Bastiaensen & P Marchetti); Insurance for the Poor: Definitions and Innovations (C Churchill); Microfinance Tradeoffs: Regulation, Competition, and Financing (R Cull et al.); Higher Education through Microfinance: The Case of Grameen Bank (A U Dowla); Spanning the Chasm: Uniting Theory and Empirics in Microfinance Research (G Fischer & M Ghatak); Microfinance in Bolivia: Foundation of the Growth, Outreach and Stability of the Financial System (C Gonzalez-Vega & M Villafani-Ibarnegaray); The Gender of Finance and Lessons for Microfinance (I Guerin); Understanding the Diversity and Complexity of Demand for Microfinance Services: Lessons from Informal Finance (I Guerin et al.); The Early German Credit Cooperatives and Microfinance Organizations Today: Similarities and Differences (T Guinnane); Social and Financial Efficiency of Microfinance Institutions (B Gutierrez-Nieto et al.); What External Control Mechanisms Help Microfinance Institutions Meet the Needs of Marginal Clientele? (V Hartarska & D Nadolnyak); The Performance of Microfinance Institutions: Do Macro Conditions Matter? (N Hermes & A Meesters); Ethics in Microfinance (M Hudon); Efficiency (M Hudon & B Balkenhol); Reaching the People Who Microfinance Cannot Reach: Learning from BRAC's Targeting the Ultra PoorA" Programme (D Hulme et al.); Microfinance Evaluation Strategies: Notes on Methodology and Findings (D Karlan & N Goldberg); Corporate Governance Challenges in Microfinance (M Labie & R Mersland); Social Investment in Microfinance: The Trade-off between Risk, Return and Outreach to the Poor (R Lensink & R Galema); Taking Gender Seriously: Towards a Gender Justice Protocol for Financial Services (L Mayoux); Is Microfinance the Adequate Tool to Finance Agriculture? (S Morvant-Roux); What is the Demand for Microcredit? The Case of Two Rural Areas in Morocco and Serbia (W Pariente); Oversight is a Many-Splendored Thing: Choice and Proportionality in Regulating and Supervising Microfinance Institutions (J K Rosengard); Boosting the Poor's Capacity to Save: Instalment Plans and Their Variants (S Rutherford); Corporate Responsibility Versus Social Performances and Financial Inclusion (J-M Servet); Microfinance - A Strategic Management Framework (G Stuart);