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Understanding the Diversity and Complexity of Demand for Microfinance Services: Lessons from Informal Finance

In: The Handbook Of Microfinance

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  • Isabelle Guérin

    (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement-UMR 201, Project Leader of RUME (Rural Microfinance and Employment: Do processes matter? http://www.rume-rural-microfinance.org/ ) and CERMi, France)

  • Soléne Morvant-Roux

    (Department of Political Economy, University of Fribourg, RUME and CERMi, Switzerland)

  • Jean-Michel Servet

    (Graduate Institute (IHEID), Genéva, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement-UMR 201 and CERMi, France)

Abstract

The following sections are included:The Social Meaning of Money, Debt and SavingMoney: A source of tension between the individual and the groupInformal finance: Diverse practices and landscapesIn What Ways Do People Perceive and Experience Finance?Saving and credit: A false dichotomyROSCAs: Individual projects and collective constraintsThe circulation of money and juggling practicesFlexibility and negotiabilityThe Role of Informal Financial Practices in the Appropriation of MicrofinanceBorrowing to onlend: Abuse or a normal part of the system?Group lending: Internal arrangements and the reproduction of pre-existing practicesSubstitution or leverage effect?ConclusionReferences

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  • Isabelle Guérin & Soléne Morvant-Roux & Jean-Michel Servet, 2011. "Understanding the Diversity and Complexity of Demand for Microfinance Services: Lessons from Informal Finance," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: Beatriz Armendáriz & Marc Labie (ed.), The Handbook Of Microfinance, chapter 5, pages 101-121, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:wschap:9789814295666_0005
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    3. Fu, Jonathan, 2020. "Ability or opportunity to act: What shapes financial well-being?," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 128(C).
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    5. Cozarenco, Anastasia & Szafarz, Ariane, 2020. "The regulation of prosocial lending: Are loan ceilings effective?," Journal of Banking & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 121(C).
    6. Evan Easton‐Calabria & Robert Hakiza, 2021. "In the interest of saving: Refugee‐led microfinance in Kampala, Uganda," Development Policy Review, Overseas Development Institute, vol. 39(1), pages 22-38, January.

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