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What's Wrong with Microfinance?
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Introduction 1 Thomas Dichter Part One: Clients 1. Can microcredit make an already slippery slope more slippery? Some lessons from the social meaning of debt 9 Thomas Dichter 2. Is microdebt good for poor people? A note on the dark side of microfinance 19 David Hulme 3. Imagining microfinance more boldly: Unleashing the true potential of microfinance 23 Imran Matin, Munshi Sulaiman and M. A. Saleque 4. What's wrong with groups? 35 Malcolm Harper 5. Finance begins with savings, not loans 49 Hugh Allen 6. 'Institutionalizing suspicion': The management and governance challenge in user-owned microfinance groups 61 Susan Johnson and Namrata Sharma 7. SHGs in India: Numbers yes, poverty outreach and empowerment, partially 73 Frances Sinha 8. Microfinance and farmers:…
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