Microfinance, rights and global justice / edited by Tom Sorell and Luis Cabrera.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sorell, Tom, editor.

Cabrera, Luis, 1966- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Microfinance.

Microfinance--Moral and ethical aspects.

Physical Description:

ix, 200 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Summary:

"Microfinance - the practice of providing small loans to promote entrepreneurial activity among those with few or no financial assets - is increasingly seen as a sustainable means of aiding the global poor. Perhaps its most influential advocate, Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus, has claimed that there is a human right to microfinance, given its potential for poverty alleviation. This book directs critical philosophical attention at this very widely used and praised poverty-reducing measure. In chapters that discuss microfinance schemes and models around the world, internationally renowned contributors address important questions about both the positive impact of microfinance and cases of exploitation and repayment pressure. Exploring how far microfinance can or should be situated within broader concerns about justice, this volume sheds light on ethical issues that have so far received little systematic attention, and it advances discussion on new human rights, exploitation, and global justice"--Back cover.

Contents:

Credit is not a right / John Gershman and Jonathan Morduch

Is there a human right to microfinance? / Tom Sorell

Financial inclusion, education, and human rights / Kimberley Brownlee and Zofia Stemplowska

Microfinance, non-ideal theory, and global distributive justice / Daniel Butt

Microfinance, poverty relief, and political justice / Miriam Ronzoni and Laura Valentini

Is exploitation permissible in microcredit? / Lesley Sherratt

What's wrong with exorbitant interest rates on microloans? / Joakim Sandberg

Tensions between financial and organisational sustainability : the problematic case of group-based microfinance and possible ways forward / Ana Marr

Freedom and credit / Mark Hannam.

ISBN:

9781107110977

1107110971

OCLC:

910092374