The rise and fall of global microcredit: development, debt and disillusion

In: Routledge critical development studies 6

Abstract

An overview -- Introduction / Milford Bateman, Stephanie Blankenburg and Richard Kozul-Wright -- Development prospects in an era of financialization / Richard Kozul-Wright -- Microcredit and development / Milford Bateman -- Country case studies -- Looking through the glass, darkly : microcredit in Peru / Matthew Bird -- Brazil : Latin America's unsung hero / Fernanda Feil and Andrej Slivnik -- Colombia: a critical look / Daniel Munevar -- Mexico and the microcredit model / Eugenia Correa and Laura Vidal -- Is sustainable microcredit in Bangladesh putting clients' livelihoods in the balance? / Mathilde Maitrot -- Cambodia : the next domino to fall? / Milford Bateman -- The instability of commercial microcredit : understanding the Indian crisis with minsky / Philip Mader -- Collective resistances to microcredit in Morocco / Solène Morvant-Roux and Jean-Yves Moisseron -- Microcredit as post-apartheid South Africa's own US-style sub-prime crisis / Milford Bateman -- Policy implications -- Financing development in the global economy post-2015 : an alternative agenda / Stephanie Blankenburg -- Conclusion / Milford Bateman, Stephanie Blankenburg and Richard Kozul-Wright