Immer mehr Bürger in Deutschland sind vom wirtschaftlichen Reichtum des Landes ausgeschlossen. Nicht nur Arbeitslose oder Rentner, auch viele Menschen, die sich in einer Endlosspirale von Billigjobs und Zeitarbeit befinden. Früher konnten sie sich nicht nur der sozialstaatlichen…
"This book invites aid agencies and governments to consider efficiency as a robust and reliable criterion to guide their decisions on continuing or discontinuing support for microfinance institutions (MFIs) Efficiency helps discriminate between support-worthy and underperforming…
This book states to aid agencies and governments to consider efficiency as a robust and reliable criterion to guide their decisions on whether continuing or discounting support from microfinance institutions (MFIS).
Introduction: the invisible aid sector / David Tittensor et Mathew Clarke -- Is islam an obstacle for progress? The analysis of Said Nursi / Salih Yucel -- Zakat and poverty in Islam / Jan Ali -- The changing nature of Islamic mission: the cases of the Gülen Movement and Tabligh…
This book helps to understand the enigmatic microfinance sector by tracing its evolution and asking how it works as a financial system. Our present capitalism is a financialized capitalism, and microfinance is its response to poverty. Microfinance has broad-ranging effects, reac…
Credit to Capabilities focuses on the controversial topic of microcredit's impact on women's empowerment and, especially, on the neglected question of how microcredit transforms women's agency. Based on interviews with hundreds of economically and socially vulnerable women from …