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Taking Stock of Microfinance

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  • Antara Haldar
  • Joseph Stiglitz

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This paper explores the current global turmoil in microfinance in the context of the problems that have arisen at SKS Microfinance in India. The authors argue that the roots of the current crisis lay in the attempt to scale-up the original “Grameen†model of microfinance set up in Bangladesh I order to establish profit-seeking bodies which have neglected the core value of trust underlying successful initiatives. Unfortunately, corrective steps may exacerbate existing problems. The founders of microfinance may have overestimated the impact of microfinance in abolishing poverty, but the hasty regulation that has been imposed to address some of the setbacks experienced in India, may only undermine further trust between borrowers and lenders. Undoubtedly, microfinance institutions have has an impact on economic exclusion, social change and on community building, but future growth in the sector may require a reversion to its original not for profit foundation.

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  • Antara Haldar & Joseph Stiglitz, 2015. "Taking Stock of Microfinance," World Economics, World Economics, 1 Ivory Square, Plantation Wharf, London, United Kingdom, SW11 3UE, vol. 16(2), pages 1-10, April.
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    1. Nicholas Sabin, 2023. "Choosing partners: selection priorities of joint liability group leaders," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 64(1), pages 323-348, January.
    2. Dillard, Jesse & Yuthas, Kristi & Baudot, Lisa, 2016. "Dialogic framing of accounting information systems in social and environmental accounting domains: Lessons from, and for, microfinance," International Journal of Accounting Information Systems, Elsevier, vol. 23(C), pages 14-27.

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