Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle against World Poverty

By Tim Buthe. 2000

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Management Information Systems

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Transforming disadvantages into advantages: developing-country MNEs in the least developed countries (2008, unknown): “In contrast, developed-country MNEs may struggle to understand consumers’ preferences in LDCs, and have to undertake additional investments to adapt their products and ways of dealing with poor clients, such as reducing the size of the product, using less expensive ingredients, or providing financin”
Funding Financial Inclusion: Institutional Logics and the Contextual Contingency of Funding for Microfinance Organizations (2016, background): “By providing small loans, microfinance organizations (MFOs) help to alleviate financial constraints for the poor and support consumption choices that increase household welfare and/or provide avenues for future ongoing income (Yunus, 1999).”
What is challenging renewable energy entrepreneurs in developing countries (2016, unknown): “Renewable energy challenges Examples of author(s) Securing investor/financier interest (Brunnschweiler [81]; Dinica [88]; Foster-Pedley and Hertzog [75]; Loock [65]; Randjelovic et al. [77]) Poor provision & access to formal finance (Aslani and Mohaghar [90]; Linnanen [126]; Mohammed et al. [127]; Z”
Informal lending amongst friends and relatives: Can microcredit compete in rural China? (2010, background): “Yunus (1999) for example is quite explicit in stating that the poor are more trustworthy than the rich.”
The New Field of Sustainable Entrepreneurship: Studying Entrepreneurial Action Linking “What is to be Sustained” with “What is to be Developed” (2011, background): “Yunus founded the Grameen Bank, a social enterprise providing the poor with cheaper loans that allowed them to substantially improve their living conditions (Yunus, 2006).”
The Microfinance Illusion (2009, unknown): “…on microloans, the Grameen Bank appeared to be able to sustainably provide hundreds of thousands of microloans to the very poorest in Bangladesh (Yunus, 2003).1 Given the growing dominance of neoliberalism in the international development community at the time, the Grameen Bank represented…”
The Impact of Microfinance in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review of the Evidence (2012, background): “The provision of “micro” financial services to the poor (those earning less than $2/day), in particular small loans of $50–$1000, has been hailed by advocates as an effective poverty alleviation and development tool (CGAP, 2003, pp. 1; Robinson, 2001; Yunus, 1999).”
Systematic Review. What is the evidence of the impact of microfinance on the well-being of poor people? (2011, methodology): “Professor Yunus started Grameen Bank (GB) more than 30 years ago with the aim of reducing poverty by providing small loans to the country’s rural poor (Yunus 1999).”
An expanded and strategic view of discontinuous innovations: deploying a service-dominant logic (2008, background): “By reconfiguring all three customers roles, it created a discontinuous business strategy called micro-credits to serve the poor as small teams of customers (Yunus 2003).”
Bankers at the gate: Microfinance and the high cost of borrowed logics (2012, methodology): “Poverty alleviation practitioners hoped that borrowers would use the small loans to establish enterprises that would enable them break cycles of poverty (Yunus, 2007).”
Capital Is Not Enough: Innovation in Developing Economies (2012, background): “Less attention is given to the business opportunity pursued because it is often assumed that the member ‘can put into practice the skills that they already know . . .’ ( Yunus, 1999, p. 140).”
High Noon for Microfinance Impact Evaluations: Re-investigating the Evidence from Bangladesh (2012, background): “Professor Yunus started Grameen Bank more than 30 years ago aiming to reduce poverty by providing small loans to the countries’ rural poor (Yunus, 1999).”