Format:
1 online resource (232 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780415443685
,
9781135255596
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia Series
Content:
The last twenty years have seen a transformation in the availability and use of credit among the less prosperous strata of Southeast Asian societies. Drawing on experiences from across the whole region, this book explores this important development, focusing especially on the modern or formal part of the microfinance sector
Note:
Cover -- Southeast Asia's Credit Revolution -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Contributors -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: from moneylenders to microfinance in Southeast Asia -- 2 Rural credit market imperfections and the role of microfinance -- 3 Old and new worlds of microfinance in Europe and Asia -- 4 Credit provision among Vietnamese small businesses -- 5 Pawnshops in Singapore: traditional microfinance in a modern society -- 6 The Indonesian People's Credit Banks (BPR) -- 7 Breaking the barriers of microfinance: the Philippine case -- 8 Economic theory meets evidence in rural Thailand: lessons for group lending -- 9 The effects of microfinance on the Orang Asli of Malaysia -- 10 Farmers in debt: the case of rainfed upland farmers in Northeast Thailand -- 11 Microfinance in Indonesia: evolution and revolution, 1900-2000 -- 12 Microfinance in Burma -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Goenka, Aditya Southeast Asia's Credit Revolution Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2009 ISBN 9780415443685
Language:
English
Keywords:
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