Financial Sector Policy and the Poor : Selected Findings and Issues,9780821359679

Financial Sector Policy and the Poor : Selected Findings and Issues

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ISBN13: 9780821359679
ISBN10: 0821359673
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-10-21
Publisher(s): World Bank
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Summary

This publication contains new empirical evidence on how financial sector policy can help in promoting pro-poor development and tackling poverty. It argues that microfinance and mainstream finance schemes should be regarded as complementary and overlapping rather than as competing alternatives, with the essential similarities between the two becoming more evident as individual microfinance firms, or associations of firms, grow to the scale needed for sustainability.

Table of Contents

Abstract v
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction
1(2)
Microfinance Penetration
3(8)
Non-uniform Development of Microfinance Across Countries
3(4)
Microfinance is Too Small to Threaten the Mainstream
7(4)
Is Microfinance Different to the Mainstream?
11(12)
Differences Related to Scale, Style, and Subsidy
11(6)
What Prevents Microfinance from Expanding to Full Potential?
17(6)
Impact
23(12)
Microfinance Impact: Alleviation More than Escape
23(7)
More Developed Mainstream Financial Systems are Associated with Less Poverty
30(2)
Poverty Gap Data Highlights the Need for Deeper Mainstream Finance in Africa
32(3)
Protecting the Vulnerable
35(8)
Predatory Lending---The Liberal's Usury
35(4)
Combating Prejudice and Discrimination
39(4)
Concluding Remarks
43
Appendixes
A Microfinance Penetration
45(8)
B MFI Scale and Profitability
53(8)
C Poverty Rates and Financial Depth
61(8)
D Predatory Lending
69

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