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…
1: Daniel Mügge: Introduction 2: Eilís Ferran: Financial Supervision 3: Jasper Blom: Banking 4: Daniel Mügge: Securities and Derivatives Markets 5: Lucia Quaglia: Insurance 6: Bart Stellinga: Accounting Standards 7: David Howarth and Lucia Quaglia: Hedge Funds 8: Stefanie Hiss a…
Increasingly topical is the question of which development strategies work best for newly industrialised countries. This book offers an up-to-date assessment of development theories leading to clear policy prescriptions.
by Fabra, Paul
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The emerging consensus that institutions shape political and economic outcomes has produced few theories of institutional change and no defensible theory of institutional origination. Kiren Aziz Chaudhry shows how state and market institutions are created and transformed in Saud…
Examines the orientation and outcome of economic policies in Greece, Spain and Portugal during the post-authoritarian period, 1975-95.
