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Southeast Asia's credit revolution : from moneylenders to microfinance / edited by Aditya Goenka and David Henley.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge studies in the growth economies of Asia (2005) ; 90.
- Routledge studies in the growth economies of Asia ; 90
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Microfinance--Southeast Asia.
- Microfinance.
- Credit--Southeast Asia.
- Credit.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (232 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Southeast Asia's Credit Revolution describes and explains the rise of microfinance - the provision of credit and other financial services for the poor - in Southeast Asia, over the past four decades the most consistently successful region of the developing world. In recent years microfinance has come to be seen as a key weapon in the battle against global poverty, generating more enthusiasm and optimism than any other development strategy.Southeast Asia has a special place in the history of microfinance. Historically, Southeast Asian societies and economies were perce
- Contents:
- Introduction: from moneylenders to microfinance in southeast Asia / David Henley and Aditya Goenka
- Rural credit market imperfections and the role of microfinance / Aditya Goenka
- Old and new worlds of microfinance in Europe and Asia / Hans Dieter Seibel
- Credit provision among Vietnamese small businesses / Stephen J. Appold and Nguyen Quy Thanh
- Pawnships in Singapore: traditional microfinance in a modern society / Selina Ching Chan and David T. Owyong
- The Indonesian people's credit banks (BPR) / Dirk Steinwand
- Breaking the barriers of microfinance: the Philippine case / Benjamin R. Quiñones Jr.
- Economic theory meets evidence in rural Thailand: lessons for group lending / Christian R. Ahlin
- The effects of microfinance on the Orang Asli of Malaysia / Angeline L. Ames and Todd T. Ames
- Farmers in debt: the case of rainfed upland farmers in Northeast Thailand / Sharon B. Singzon and Ganesh P. Shivakoti
- Microfinance in Indonesia: evolution and revolution, 1900-2000 / David Henley
- Microfinance in Burma / Sean Turnell.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-203-87408-0
- 1-299-28502-3
- 1-135-25559-8
- 9780203874080
- OCLC:
- 831119780
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