Book review: the crises of microcredit edited by Isabelle Guérin, Marc Labie and Jean-Michel Servet

Hickel, Jason (2016) Book review: the crises of microcredit edited by Isabelle Guérin, Marc Labie and Jean-Michel Servet. LSE Review of Books (04 Feb 2016). Website.

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Do microfinance initiatives offer a panacea for poverty? In The Crises of Microcredit, editors Isabelle Guérin, Marc Labie and Jean-Michel Servet present a set of essays that examines the emergent problems in the microfinance sector. While the book will be of use to those wanting to understand how an apparent miracle cure now seems shrouded in crisis, Jason Hickel argues that the book does not fully explore the structural issues that render microcredit a fundamentally flawed means of enabling development and solving global poverty.

Item Type:	Online resource (Website)
Official URL:	http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/
Additional Information:	© 2016 The Author
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HG Finance
Date Deposited:	11 Mar 2016 16:49
Last Modified:	14 Sep 2024 00:26
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/65701

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