Finance for the Poor: From Microcredit to Microfinancial Services

By I. Matin, D. Hulme, Stuart Rutherford. 2002

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Subfields: Business and International Management, Economics and Econometrics, Urban Studies

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The ‘new economy’ and social risk: banking on the poor? (2004, background): “‘Microfinance’ has now become established as the popular terminology to reflect this complementarity (see Martin et al. , 2002).”
The institutional context of poverty: State fragility as a predictor of cross‐national variation in commercial microfinance lending (2014, background): “Thus, while microfinance transactions may occur in the informal economy where its clients operate, many itself is typically legal, registered, and constrained by formal rules and regulations (Matin, Hulme, and Rutherford, 2002; Schreiner, 2001; World Bank, 1997).”
Microfinance and the business of poverty reduction: Critical perspectives from rural Bangladesh (2017, background): “In the absence of many formal financial structures, poor communities and families rely heavily on social connections and social capital to develop financial solutions that protect against risk and vulnerability (Matin et al., 2002).”
Capital Is Not Enough: Innovation in Developing Economies (2012, background): “Necessity-based entrepreneurs, by contrast, are less likely to engage in a thorough search for innovative opportunities and are more likely to focus on imitative opportunities that are well-recognized (Matin et al., 2002).”
Rural Women’s Access to Financial Services: Credit, Savings, and Insurance (2014, background): “• Design products that are flexible and meet women’s needs (Matin et al., 2002).”
Management accounting in less developed countries: what is known and needs knowing (2009, background): “At their best they possess humanitarian goals; strong grassroots links; field-based development expertise; innovation and adaptability; process-oriented approaches; participation linked to learning; long-term commitment; an emphasis on sustainability; cost-effectiveness, and cross cultural managemen”