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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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Land Titling and Microcredit in Cambodia: Examining the Reality of Hernando De Soto's 'Three Steps to Heaven'
In: Forthcoming in 'Critical Insights on Tenure Security in the Global South', a special issue of the journal LAND
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Land Titling Improves Access to Microcredit in Cambodia: Be Careful What You Wish For
In: Paper Prepared for Presentation at the '2020 World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty' the World Bank – Washington DC, March 16–20, 2020
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Moving From 'Developmental' to 'Anti-Developmental' Local Financial Models in East Asia: Abandoning a Winning Formula
In: Bateman, M. (2020) 'Moving From 'Developmental' to 'Anti-Developmental' Local Financial Models in East Asia: Abandoning a Winning Formula', Geoforum, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0016718520302839?via%3Dihub
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Microcredit in Cambodia: Why is There So Much Support for a Failed Poverty Reduction Model?
In: ISEAS Perspective, No, 134, 2020
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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
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From Panacea to 'Anti-Development' Intervention: The Rise and Fall of Microcredit
In: UNCTAD Discussion Papers on Globalization and Development, No 1
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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