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Dilemmas and Directions in Microfinance Research

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Microfinance in Developing Countries

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Associating microfinance with alleviation of poverty has become a truism. Subsequently, the microcredit movement has enjoyed wide support from governments, international development agencies, wealthy philanthropists, renowned financial institutions and even the Noble Peace Prize Committee. Indeed, in awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank in 2006, the committee noted that ‘Yunus has, first and foremost through Grameen Bank, developed micro-credit into an ever more important instrument in the struggle against poverty’. Consistent with this trend, success stories abound on the internet and in countless reports of microentrepreneurs who set up successful businesses, lifting their families and neighbouring poor out of poverty.

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  1. University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada

    Jean-Pierre Gueyie (Associate Professor of Finance) (Associate Professor of Finance)

  2. Cranfield School of Management, Cranfield University, UK

    Ronny Manos (Lecturer in Finance) (Lecturer in Finance)

  3. School of Business Administration, the College of Management Academic Studies, Israel

    Jacob Yaron (Faculty Consultant) (Faculty Consultant)

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Manos, R., Gueyie, JP., Yaron, J. (2013). Dilemmas and Directions in Microfinance Research. In: Gueyie, JP., Manos, R., Yaron, J. (eds) Microfinance in Developing Countries. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137301925_1

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