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Promoting Microfinance

Challenges and Innovations in Developing Countries and Countries in Transition

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Editors:
  1. Ronny Manos

    1. College of Management Academic Studies, Israel

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  2. Jean-Pierre Gueyié

    1. University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada

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  3. Jacob Yaron

    1. College of Management Academic Studies, Israel

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. The Importance of Innovations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Challenges and Innovations in Promoting Microfinance

      • Ronny Manos, Jean-Pierre Gueyié, Jacob Yaron
      Pages 3-16

    3. The Implications of a Growing Microfinance Market in Latin America and the Caribbean

      • Ana Pantelić
      Pages 17-36

  4. Measuring Impact and Performance

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-101
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    2. Micro-credit Access and Household Welfare in Rural Cameroon

      • Francis Menjo Baye
      Pages 103-131

    3. A Cost Function Approach to MFI Efficiency: The Role of Subsidy and Social Output Measures

      • Valentina Hartarska, Denis Nadolnyak, Shen Xuan
      Pages 132-147

    4. Social and Financial Performance of Microfinance Institutions: A Multi-stage Data Envelopment Analysis Application

      • Joseph Nzongang, Eloge Nishimikijimana
      Pages 148-169

  5. Coping with Conflicts and Disasters

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 171-171
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    2. Designing Apex Organizations in Conflict-affected Environments: An Analysis of Recent Experiences in Bosnia-Hezegovina and in Afghanistan

      • Stephanie Charitonenko, Dale Lampe
      Pages 173-196

    3. Are Microfinance Institutions and Their Customers Reactive to Disaster Risk? Main Topics and Four Case Studies

      • Davide Castellani, Simonetta Chiodi, Laura Viganò
      Pages 197-220

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 221-237
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Promoting Microfinance brings together essays and empirical work by leading researchers and practitioners in the field of microfinance. It covers key issues currently facing the microfinance industry and provides an overview of the microfinance industry in selected countries/regions, pointing to the direction in which it is heading.

Editors and Affiliations

  • College of Management Academic Studies, Israel

    Ronny Manos, Jacob Yaron

  • University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada

    Jean-Pierre Gueyié

About the editors

GIOVANNA AGUILAR Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú FRANCIS MENJO BAYE Faculty of Economics and Management, University of Yaoundé II, Cameroon DAVIDE CASTELLANI Department of Economics and Business Administration, University of Bergamo, Italy STEPHANIE CHARITONENKO Microfinance Investment Support Facility for Afghanistan (MISFA) SIMONETTA CHIODI University of Bergamo, Italy PABLO COTLER Departamento de Economia, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico VALENTINA HARTARSKA Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, Auburn University, USA DALE LAMPE Microfinance Investment Support Facility for Afghanistan (MISFA) DENIS NADOLNYAK Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, Auburn University, USA ELOGE NISHIMIKIJIMANA African Reinsurance Corporation (Africa-Re) in Lagos, Nigeria JOSEPH NZONGANG Faculty of Economics and Management, University of Dschang, Cameroon ANA PANTELIC Fundación Capital JULIA PAXTON Ohio State University, USA WILLIAM F. STEEL Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research, University of Ghana, Ghana LAURA VIGANO University of Bergamo, Italy SHEN XUAN Auburn University, USA

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