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Southeast Asia's Credit Revolution: From Moneylenders to Microfinance book cover

1st Edition

Southeast Asia's Credit Revolution From Moneylenders to Microfinance

Edited By Aditya Goenka, David Henley Copyright 2010
240 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

240 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

240 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Southeast Asia’s Credit Revolution describes and explains the rise of microfinance – the provision of credit and other financial services for the poor – in Southeast Asia, over the past four decades the most consistently successful region of the developing world. In recent years microfinance has come to be seen as a key weapon in the battle against global poverty, generating more enthusiasm and... Read more

1. Introduction: from moneylenders to microfinance in Southeast Asia Aditya Goenka and David Henley  2. Rural credit market imperfections and the role of microfinance Aditya Goenka  3. Old and new worlds of microfinance in Europe and Asia Hans-Dieter Seibel  4. Credit provision among Vietnamese small businesses Stephen J. Appold and Nguyen Quy Thanh  5. Pawnshops in Singapore: traditional microfinance in a modern society Selina Ching Chan and David T. Owyong  6. The Indonesian People's Credit Banks (BPR) Dirk Steinwand  7. Breaking down the barriers to microfinance: the Philippine case Benjamin R. Quiñones, Jr.  8. Economic theory meets evidence in rural Thailand: lessons for group lending Christian R. Ahlin  9. The effects of microcredit on the Orang Asli of Malaysia Angeline L. Ames and Todd T. Ames  10. Farmers in debt: the case of rainfed upland farmers in Northeast Thailand Sharon B. Singzon and Ganesh P. Shivakoti  11. Microfinance in Indonesia: evolution and revolution, 1900-2000 David Henley  12. Microfinance in Burma Sean Turnell

Biography

David Henley is a researcher at the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV) in Leiden. He has written on diverse topics in the history of Indonesia, and currently coordinates an international research project on the comparative economic histories of Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Aditya Goenka is an economist at the National University of Singapore. His research interests include endogenous business cycles, economic growth, and credit market imperfections. He is currently working on the effect of infectious diseases on economic growth.

"This work is a great antidote to the hype that has tended to surround microfinance, especially among students, as a panacea for poverty. It restores the historical record of the role that voluntary, informal, and state-promoted institutions played in microfinance in the region as long ago as the 19th century and is firmly grounded in the reality, both positive and negative, that empirical research reveals. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Students at all levels, faculty, and professionals." - J. H. Cobbe, CHOICE (May 2010)
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