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The search for reasons & solutions: A compendium of voices on the AP...

As India celebrates Diwali this week, the debate about how to deal with microfinance has calmed a bit. But since I wrote up my analysis of the root causes Andhra Pradesh showdown (part 1, part 2), the...

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And now all of a sudden it turns out -

… that lower interest rates were possible all along! India’s embattled microfinance industry has agreed to cap interest rates on its loans in southern Andhra Pradesh state at 24 per cent, as it seeks...

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And now this: GrameenLeaks??

In the past few weeks, I’ve been silent here about the microfinance crisis events in India. But why not let others do the talking? This blog published (what I think was) the first analysis of the A.P....

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The “Why?” of Andhra Pradesh – An Interview with Malcolm Harper

In this interview, Professor Malcolm Harper analyses some of the underlying causes and consequences of the microfinance crisis in Andhra Pradesh. Professor Harper is chairman of the microfinance rating...

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The Series Series (5): “State of the Sector” @ Microfinance In India

One of the things that make blogs particularly interesting are series. The “series” series recommends series at related blogs. This time, I introduce the “State of the Sector” series on the blog of the...

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Bordercrossing Books: “Just Give Money to the Poor” by Hanlon, Barrientos and...

Joseph Hanlon, Armando Barrientos, David Hulme, 2010: Just Give Money to the Poor: The Development Revolution from the Global South. Sterling: Kumarian Press. If it sounds novel to suggest that if you...

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The Danger of Symbolism: Why the debate about “The Micro Debt” misses the point

The reactions to Tom Heinemann‘s controversial documentary “The Micro Debt” have mostly been strong. The film sheds light onto a number of questions, first and foremost the risk microcredit borrowers...

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Microfinance displacing the state: private credit for public goods?

Practically everyone has heard the proverbial story of poor a Bangladeshi or Nigerian taking out a microloan to, say, buy a few chickens or start a small business selling mangoes, and becoming a...

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How the Microfinance of Yesteryear accidentally created American Consumerism

I knew I was opening an interesting book when I picked up Lendol Calder’s „Financing the American Dream: A Cultural History of Consumer Credit”. But I had no idea that, in reading the historical...

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Drafting Foot Soldiers for the War on Poverty

This post is provided by guest blogger Domen Bajde, Assistant Professor of Marketing at Faculty of Economics (FELU) at the University of Ljubljana/Slovenia. He is also running a personal blog at...

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Indian Microfinance: The Stalemate is becoming unstable

Microfinance in India is still where it was months ago – in a stalemate with the government. The crisis of microcredit in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh which began last October with a...

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What’s wrong with Microfinance for Water? Well… A few Things

It’s great to know that people take note of the ideas we share on this blog. In April, I posted an entry introducing a paper I had recently presented in Croatia, called “Attempting the Production of...

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Bordercrossing Books: “Microfinance and Its Discontents” by Lamia Karim

Lamia Karim, 2011: Microfinance and Its Discontents: Women in Debt in Bangladesh. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Microfinance has built a significant part of its reputation on the...

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The Mothership of Microfinance Impact Studies has landed

A new systematic review of the evidence on microfinance, published last week, is dynamite for the world’s most popular development policy. Madeleine Bunting of the Guardian has already referred to it...

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False Histories: Microfinance and its non-Lineage of German Cooperative Banking

Recently, I’ve been writing a section about the history of microfinance for my dissertation. Having read around a bit, I feel the need to correct a myth that seems all too common among microfinance...

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That evil evil Microcredit Documentary, on Tour

Few documentaries in the past years can claim to have had as much impact on transnational development as The Micro Debt. Tom Heinemann‘s documentary film, produced for Norwegian public broadcasting,...

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Bordercrossing Books: “The Journey of Indian Micro-Finance” by Ramesh S....

Ramesh S. Arunachalam, 2011: The Journey of Indian Micro-Finance: Lessons for the Future. Chennai: Aapti Publications. The microfinance crisis in India which broke out in fall 2010, first imperiling...

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How to Make Microfinance out as a Success, even when It Isn’t

CGAP is the World Bank’s (not-quite-so-)arm’s-length sub-organisation whose role is to promote microfinance. CGAP (“see-gap“) once stood for “Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest“, now it...

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Heresy or Opportunity? Book Review of “Confessions of a Microfinance Heretic”

This is a book review I wrote for the microfinance news site microDINERO about Hugh Sinclair’s controversial new insider/whistleblower account of the microfinance industry. Hugh Sinclair, 2012:...

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Charity, Games, Spectacle and Ideology

This post is provided by guest blogger Domen Bajde of the University of Southern Denmark. As evidenced by inventive movements and campaigns (for a future example see Half the Sky Movement: The Game),...

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