MICROFINANCE IN ASIA - Hardcover

Christopher Gan; Gilbert V Nartea

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9813147946 ISBN 13: 9789813147942

Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co, 2017

Synopsis

Lack of credit access is severe in low income and poor families that are normally considered to have fewer opportunities to borrow from banks due to insufficient valuable assets for collateral. These low-income households face limited opportunity to acquire new technology and working capital for agricultural production and thus tend to fall behind. As a result, providing access to finance to low-income rural households has been considered an important component of any rural development strategy. Microfinance programmes, in particular, have been gradually embedded in national strategies of many developing countries as they are poverty-focused. They aim to facilitate the access to financial services such as credit for the poor who are usually disadvantaged in terms of access to conventional financial services from formal financial institutions. The objective of this book is to provide an overview of microfinance programmes in Asia focusing in particular on the determinants of the accessibility of rural households to microcredit. The book studies seven Asian countries such as China, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia, and Bangladesh with two specific case studies.

About this edition

• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 9813147946
• ISBN 13: 9789813147942
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 392