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Microfinance and public policy: outreach, performance and efficiency/ (Record no. 151400)

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fixed length control field	00388nam a2200133Ia 4500
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number	9221193470
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Transcribing agency	CUS
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number	332.2
Item number	BAL/M
245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title	Microfinance and public policy: outreach, performance and efficiency/
Statement of responsibility, etc.	edited by Bernd Balkenhol.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc.	New York:
Name of publisher, distributor, etc.	Palgrave Macmillan,
Date of publication, distribution, etc.	2008.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent	xxiii, 263 p. :
Other physical details	ill. ;
Dimensions	23 cm.
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note	Introduction --<br/>Efficiency and sustainability in microfinance / Bernd Balkenhol --<br/>Promise and achievements --<br/>Efficiency in the microfinance literature --<br/>Efficiency: The concept --<br/>Applicability of efficiency concepts in microfinance --<br/>Efficiency versus financial Sustainability --<br/>Structure of the book --<br/>Conceptual framework --<br/>Poverty versus inequality / Amadou Diop, Isabelle Hillenkamp, Jean Michel Servet --<br/>Introduction --<br/>Defining and measuring poverty --<br/>How microfinance can help reduce poverty --<br/>Poverty reduction and financial performance --<br/>Can microfinance reach the poor? --<br/>The harmful side effects: Increased disparities --<br/>Poverty reduction through microfinance: a capability perspective / Flavio Comim --<br/>Introduction --<br/>Who are the poor? What are the issues? --<br/>Positive mechanisms --<br/>Negative mechanisms --<br/>A capability perspective --<br/>Achieving poverty outreach, impact and sustainability: managing trade-offs in microfinance / Anton Simanowitz --<br/>Introduction: Combining social and financial objectives --<br/>Trade-offs --<br/>Managing trade-offs --<br/>Conclusions --<br/>Smart subsidies / Jonathan Morduch --<br/>Introduction Subsidies and microfinance --<br/>Valuing subsidies --<br/>"Crowding in" and "crowding out" --<br/>Conclusions --<br/>Empirical analysis --<br/>Efficiency in microfinance institutions: an application of data envelopment analysis to MFIs in Peru / Yves Flickiger, Anatoli Vassiliev --<br/>Introduction --<br/>Previous research on MFIs' performance evaluation --<br/>Performance analysis methodology --<br/>Data sources and variable construction --<br/>Efficiency analysis with the DEA model --<br/>Conclusions --<br/>Efficiency in financial intermediation: theory and empirical measurement / Thorsten Beck --<br/>Introduction --<br/>Interest spreads and credit rationing: theory --<br/>Interest spreads and credit rationing: cross-country evidence --<br/>Decomposing spreads --<br/>Explaining spreads --<br/>Conclusions and policy lessons --<br/>Efficiency drivers and constraints: Empirical findings / Yousra Hamed --<br/>Introduction --<br/>Methodology --<br/>The data --<br/>MFI clusters --<br/>Performance drivers and constraints --<br/>Conclusions --<br/>Measuring the performance of MFIs: an application of factor analysis / Giovanni Ferro Luzzii and Sylvain Weber --<br/>Introduction --<br/>The data --<br/>Factor analysis: theory and practice --<br/>Cluster analysis --<br/>Assessing what determines performance --<br/>Conclusions --<br/>Selected country studies --<br/>Contextual factors determining poverty outreach and financial performance: the case of Mali / Renata Serra, Fabrizio Botti, and Milasoa Cherel-Robson --<br/>Introduction --<br/>Domestic contextual factors: institutions, state and markets --<br/>External factors: the implications of subsidy withdrawal --<br/>Conclusion --<br/>Contextual factors determining poverty outreach and financial performance: the case of Morocco / Said Filali Meknassi --<br/>Introduction --<br/>Institutional context --<br/>Support by banks --<br/>Subsidies --<br/>Conclusion --<br/>Contextual factors determining poverty outreach and financial performance: the case of Central and Eastern Europe / Jusyna Pytkovwsa --<br/>Introduction --<br/>Access to resources --<br/>Financial performance --<br/>Social performance --<br/>Auctioning subsidies: Chile's "Access to Credit Program" / Vito Sciaraffia Merino --<br/>Introduction --<br/>Micro-enterprises in Chile --<br/>Has the PAC achieved its goals? --<br/>Conclusions --<br/>Policy implications / Bernd Balkenhol --<br/>Global donor support to microfinance --<br/>Weight of subsidies in microfinance --<br/>What prompts public policy support to MFIs? --<br/>General effects of public policy on efficiency in microfinance at the sectoral level --<br/>Support measures affecting the efficiency of individual MFIs --<br/>The way forward: how to support the best of class and the others --<br/>Annex I : GIAN survey --<br/>Annex II. Multivariate analysis and classification: social and financial performance --<br/>Annex III. Multivariate analysis and classification: social and financial performance and efficiency --<br/>Bibliography --<br/>Index.
650 ## - SUBJECT
Keyword	Microfinance
650 ## - SUBJECT
Keyword	Poverty
650 ## - SUBJECT
Keyword	Small business--Finance
650 ## - SUBJECT
Keyword	Developing countries
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name	Balkenhol, Bernd, ed.
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Koha item type	General Books

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Withdrawn status	Lost status	Damaged status	Not for loan	Home library	Current library	Shelving location	Date acquired	Full call number	Accession number	Date last seen	Date last checked out	Koha item type
				Central Library, Sikkim University	Central Library, Sikkim University	General Book Section	28/08/2016	332.2 BAL/M	P06074	12/07/2018	12/07/2018	General Books