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1 online resource (212 pages) |
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text file |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Aug 2015). |
| Summary |
Microfinance - the practice of providing small loans to promote entrepreneurial activity among those with few 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. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- microfinance, rights and global justice -- Credit is not a right -- Is there a human right to microfinance? -- Financial inclusion, education, and human rights -- Microfinance, non-ideal theory, and global distributive justice -- Microfinance, poverty relief, and political justice -- Is exploitation permissible in microcredit? -- What's wrong with exorbitant interest rates on microloans? -- Tensions between financial and organisational sustainability: the problematic case of group-based microfinance and possible ways forward -- Freedom and credit. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Microfinance.
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Microfinance. |
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Microfinance -- Developing countries.
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Developing countries. |
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Finance. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Sorell, Tom, editor.
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Cabrera, Luis, 1966- editor.
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| Added Title |
Microfinance, rights & global justice |
| Other Form: |
Erscheint auch als: Druck-Ausgabe Sorell, Tom. Microfinance, Rights and Global Justice |
| ISBN |
9781316275634 (electronic book) |
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1316275639 (electronic book) |
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9781316398869 (electronic book) |
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1316398862 (electronic book) |
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1107110971 |
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9781107110977 |
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9781316398326 |
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1316398323 |
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1316400522 |
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9781316400524 |
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1316399982 |
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9781316399989 |
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1107527759 |
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9781107527751 |
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1316397246 |
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9781316397244 |
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1316399443 |
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9781316399446 |
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9781107110977 (hardback) |
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9781107527751 (paperback) |
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9781316401064 |
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1316401065 |
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