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Why doesn't microfinance work?: The destructive rise of local neoliberalism
In: Economics/development
Over the last thirty years or so, microfinance has risen to become one of the most high-profile policies to address poverty and under-development. in developing and transition countries. It is beloved of rock stars, royalty, movie stars, high profile politicians and `trouble-shooting` economists, such as Jeffrey Sachs and Hernando de Soto. Its most famous pioneer from Bangladesh, Dr Muhammad Yunus, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006. Microfinance is consistently rated as one of the most important innovations to have come along this past forty years or so. Dr Bateman believes, however, that microfinance doesn`t actually work. His argument is that, if you look more closely, the case for microfinance has actually been largely built on a desire to advance a particular free market ideology, on hype and egregious half-truths, and - latterly - on the Wall Street-style greed, deception and individual self-interest of those actually promoting and working in microfinance. Dr Bateman shows why many of the most fundamental building blocks of microfinance are largely myths, before going on to demonstrate that microfinance actually undermines the institutional foundations required for sustainable development and poverty reduction.
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The rise of microcredit "control fraud" in post-apartheid South Africa: from state-enforced to market-driven exploitation of the black community
In: Review of African political economy, Band 46, Heft 161, S. 387-414
ISSN: 1740-1720
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Book Review: Politicized Microfinance: Money, Power, and Violence in the Black Americas
In: Review of radical political economics, Band 50, Heft 2, S. 438-441
ISSN: 1552-8502
Book Review: Debtfare States and the Poverty Industry: Money, Discipline and the Surplus Population
In: Review of radical political economics, Band 50, Heft 1, S. 215-218
ISSN: 1552-8502
South Africa's post-apartheid microcredit experiment: moving from state-enforced to market-enforced exploitation
In: Forum for social economics, Band 48, Heft 1, S. 69-97
ISSN: 1874-6381
Introduction
In: Forum for social economics, Band 48, Heft 1, S. 2-21
ISSN: 1874-6381
Book Review: Zimbabwe takes back its land
In: Review of radical political economics, Band 46, Heft 4, S. 577-580
ISSN: 1552-8502
Zimbabwe takes back its land
In: Review of radical political economics, Band 46, Heft 4, S. 577-580
ISSN: 1552-8502
Book Review: Due Diligence: An Impertinent Enquiry into Microfinance
In: Review of radical political economics, Band 45, Heft 3, S. 415-419
ISSN: 1552-8502
The age of microfinance: Destroying Latin American economies from the bottom up
This article argues that the microfinance model that arrived in Latin America in the 1970s has proven, as elsewhere around the world, to be an almost wholly destructive economic and social policy intervention. Centrally, I argue that the microfinance model is responsible for embedding and giving continued impetus to an adverse 'anti-development' trajectory in Latin America's economies, one that has progressively helped to de-industrialise, infantilise and informalise the overall local economic and social structure. Until recently, the extent and precise nature of this 'anti-development' trajectory has been ignored for fear of undermining and delegitimizing the global microfinance model and, with it, the dominant political-economic philosophy - neoliberalism - that essentially gave life to it. Effective local industrial policies and 'pro-development' local financial institutions are now urgently required in Latin America to build genuinely sustainable and equitable solidarity-driven local economies from the bottom up.
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Due Diligence: An Impertinent Enquiry into Microfinance
In: Review of radical political economics, Band 45, Heft 3, S. 415-419
ISSN: 0486-6134
How Lending to the Poor Began, Grew, and Almost Destroyed a Generation in India
In: Development and change, Band 43, Heft 6, S. 1385-1402
ISSN: 1467-7660
Introduction: the policy framework for reconstruction and development
In: Most: economic policy in transitional economics, Band 10, Heft 2, S. 137-151
ISSN: 1120-7388
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Small enterprise development in the Yugoslav successor states: Institutions and institutional development in a post-war environment
In: Most: economic policy in transitional economics, Band 10, Heft 2, S. 171-206
ISSN: 1120-7388
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