Banking is for Others: Contradictions of Microfinance in the Ghanaian Market

Banking is for Others: Contradictions of Microfinance in the Ghanaian Market

Recent literature on microfinance has observed that commercial microfinance programs that achieve financial sustainability largely fail to reach the poor (Hulme 2000; Mayoux 2000; Cull, Demirgüç-Kunt, and Morduch 2007). Most studies rely on institutional explanations for this failure (Battilana and...

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Main Author:	Irene Pang
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	University Library System, University of Pittsburgh 2016-08-01
Series:	Journal of World-Systems Research
Online Access:	http://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/jwsr/article/view/640

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