The triangle of microfinance : financial sustainability, outreach, and impact / edited by Manfred Zeller and Richard L. Meyer.
| Other author | Zeller, Manfred. |
| Other author | Meyer, Richard L., 1937- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. |
| Description | xxii, 399 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | International Food Policy Research Institute International Food Policy Research Institute (Series) ^A532272 |
| Contents | Improving the performance of microfinance : financial sustainability, outreach, and impact / Manfred Zeller and Richard L. Meyer -- Access to and demand for financial services by the poor. Access to and demand for and access to financial services by the rural poor : a multicountry synthesis / Manfred Zeller and Manohar Sharma -- Characteristics of household demand for financial services in highly uncertain economies : a review of evidence from Burkina Faso / Geneviève Nguyen, Betty Wampfler, Michel Benoit-Cattin, and Kimseyinga Savadogo -- Wealth and rural credit among farmers in Mexico : is market participation consistent with targeting? / Julie Stanton -- Credit constraints and loan demand in rural Bangladesh / Manfred Zeller and Manohar Sharma -- Improving access to land markets : evidence from emerging farmers in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa / Michael Lyne and Mark Darroch -- Outreach and financial sustainability of institutions. Outreach and sustainability of member-based rural financial intermediaries / Julia Paxton and Carlos E. Cuevas -- Microcredit and the poorest of the poor : theory and evidence from Bolivia / Sergio Navajas, Mark Schreiner, Richard L. Meyer, Claudio Gonzalez-Vega, and Jorge Rodriguez-Meza -- An operational tool for evaluating the poverty outreach of development policies and projects / Manfred Zeller, Manohar Sharma, Carla Henry, and Cécile Lapenu -- Transaction costs of group and individual lending and rural financial market access : the case of poverty oriented microfinance in Cameroon / Franz Heidhues, Dieudonne Belle-Sossoh, and Gertrud Buchenrieder -- Measuring the impact of microfinance. Impact of microfinance on food security and poverty alleviation : a review and synthesis of empirical evidence / Manohar Sharma and Gertrud Buchenrieder -- Impact of access to credit on maize and tobacco productivity in Malawi / Aliou Diagne -- Explaining poverty : an empirical analysis of the effects of ill health and uncertainty on the savings of rural Pakistani households / Anjini Kochar -- Toward economic sustainability of rural financial systems for the poor : the role of public action and the private sector. The microfinance revolution : implications for the role of the state / Cécile Lapenu -- Recent developments in rural finance markets / Jacob Yaron and McDonald Benjamin -- Credit systems for the rural poor in the economic transition of China : institutions, outreach, and policy options / Zhu Ling, Jiang Zhongyi, and Joachim Von Braun -- Summary and implications for policy and research. Summary and implications for policy and research / Richard L. Meyer and Manfred Zeller. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2002005367 |
| ISBN | 0801871484 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 080187226X (pbk. : alk. paper) |