Due Diligence
David Roodman
The idea that small loans can help poor families build businesses and exit poverty has blossomed into a global movement. The concept has captured the public imagination, drawn in billions of dollars, reached millions of customers, and garnered a Nobel Prize. Radical in its suggestion that the poor are creditworthy and conservative in its insistence on individual accountability, the idea has expanded beyond credit into savings, insurance, and money transfers, earning the name microfinance. But is it the boon so many think it is?Readers of David Roodman's openbook blog will immediately recognize his thorough, straightforward, and trenchant analysis. Due Diligence, written entirely in public with input from readers, probes the truth about microfinance to guide governments, foundations, investors, and private citizens who support financial services for poor people. In particular, it explains the need to deemphasize microcredit in favor of other financial services for the poor.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781933286488
- Publication Date: Dec 2011
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A Better Globalization
Kemal Dervis
The huge costs of armed conflict, the great challenge of state failure, and the slow pace of international actions to address world poverty all point to weaknesses in the global institutional framework and the need for much more effective international cooperation. In this book, Kemal Dervis argues that it is time to build a new international governance structure, breaking away from a system that reflects the post World War II world toward one that is appropriate to the realities and requirements of the 21st century. He proposes a reform of the international institutional architecture based on high-level governance in both the political and economic domains by a renewed and modernized United Nations. Navigating between careful realism and bold idealism, he formulates a coherent vision encompassing both institutional reform and new ideas for policies supported by the specialized institutions such as the IMF, the World Bank, the WTO, the UN agencies themselves, and regional institutions such as the regional development banks. In this plea for "better" globalization, Dervis proposes that, under the legitimizing umbrella of the UN, the specialized institutions deal with the deep causes of the obstacles to poverty reduction and instability rather than their immediate manifestations. He recognizes the great potential that more and freer trade can have for accelerating growth throughout the world. He also stresses, however, that for this potential to be unleashed, the hearts and minds of people must be won by transforming not only the WTO framework but the entire governance of the international economic system into something that is perceived as more legitimate and more responsive to the concerns of the developing world as well as wealthy and creditor nations.
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- ISBN: 9780815717638
- Publication Date: Mar 2005
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Sasha Toperich
- Imprint: Center for Transatlantic Relations SAIS
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- ISBN: 9780990772132
- Publication Date: Sep 2017
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Evelyn Beck
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- ISBN: 9780940017023
- Publication Date: Apr 2008
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Donald Greive
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- ISBN: 9780940017399
- Publication Date: Jan 2016
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O.P. Sharma
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- ISBN: 9789388386906
- Publication Date: Jun 2019
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Sadasiva Biswal
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- ISBN: 9789388971003
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Chander Mohan
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- ISBN: 9789388971010
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Pradeep Pratap Singh
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- ISBN: 9789388971027
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Mohd Shadab Khan
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- ISBN: 9789388971072
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S.L. Kakani
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9789386385307
- Publication Date: Feb 2017
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Daniel James Vecchio
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9783868385953
- Publication Date: Jun 2021
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Medicina Interna Basada en la Evidencia 2019/20
Rodolfo Armas Merino
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- ISBN: 9788374305853
- Publication Date: May 2019
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Great Thinkers, Great Minds
Peter J. Heard
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9789671369746
- Publication Date: Jan 2018
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Mohamed Ariff
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- ISBN: 9789671369791
- Publication Date: Jan 2020
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Peter Tham
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- ISBN: 9789675492051
- Publication Date: Jun 2020
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Peter Tham
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- ISBN: 9789675492068
- Publication Date: Jun 2020
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Graeme Wilkinson
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- ISBN: 9789675492082
- Publication Date: Jun 2020
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Graeme Wilkinson
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- ISBN: 9789675492099
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