Promoting Microfinance : Challenges and Innovations in Developing Countries and Countries in Transition

Promoting Microfinance brings together essays and empirical work by leading researchers and practitioners in the field of microfinance. It covers key issues currently facing the microfinance industry and provides an overview of the microfinance industry in selected countries/regions, pointing to the direction in which it is heading.

GIOVANNA AGUILAR Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú FRANCIS MENJO BAYE Faculty of Economics and Management, University of Yaoundé II, Cameroon DAVIDE CASTELLANI Department of Economics and Business Administration, University of Bergamo, Italy STEPHANIE CHARITONENKO Microfinance Investment Support Facility for Afghanistan (MISFA) SIMONETTA CHIODI University of Bergamo, Italy PABLO COTLER Departamento de Economia, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico VALENTINA HARTARSKA Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, Auburn University, USA DALE LAMPE Microfinance Investment Support Facility for Afghanistan (MISFA) DENIS NADOLNYAK Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, Auburn University, USA ELOGE NISHIMIKIJIMANA African Reinsurance Corporation (Africa-Re) in Lagos, Nigeria JOSEPH NZONGANG Faculty of Economics and Management, University of Dschang, Cameroon ANA PANTELIC Fundación Capital JULIA PAXTON Ohio State University, USA WILLIAM F. STEEL Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research, University of Ghana, Ghana LAURA VIGANO University of Bergamo, Italy SHEN XUAN Auburn University, USA