The economics of microfinance

Preface to the Second Edition

Preface to the First Edition

Acknowledgments

1. Rethinking Banking

2. Why Intervene in Credit Markets?

3. Roots of Microfinance: ROSCAs and Credit Cooperatives

4. Group Lending

5. Beyond Group Lending

6. Savings and Insurance

7. Gender

8. Commercialization and Regulation

9. Measuring Impacts

10. Subsidy and Sustainability

11. Managing Microfinance

Notes

References

Abbreviations

Name Index

Subject Index