Description
Book SynopsisThis timely
Handbook offers a unique opportunity to consider the performance and national context of microcredit initiatives within the European Union.
Drawing together authors from a multi-disciplinary background and including complementary perspectives and interpretative analysis, this original Handbook examines which strategies and policies may affect how a particular country initiative fights against social and financial exclusion or fosters entrepreneurial behaviour with the use of microcredit. It explores the development of an Eastern/Western Europe practical divide in institutional practices and business models, whilst analysing the state of European microcredit and how the continent is adopting and adapting this developing world model for economic development.
This book will be an influential tool helping government and policymakers to target a new set of microcredit initiatives and programmes. It will also be an invaluable read for students and academics in economics, business, development issues and political science.
Trade Review‘Microcredit in Europe has had an uncomfortable birth, often not able to emulate the successes of the developing world either in scaling-up or in attacking poverty. But things are looking up, across much of the continent; this Handbook explains how. It will be an extremely valuable asset to practitioners and researchers seeking to make microcredit into an effective instrument of social policy.’ -- Paul Mosley, University of Sheffield, UK
Table of ContentsContents: Introduction Karl Dayson, Bárbara Jayo Carboni, Jill Kickul, Maricruz Lacalle Calderón and Silvia Rico Garrido 1. The Microcredit Sector in the United Kingdom: The Role of CDFIs Niamh Goggin, Karl Dayson and Sarah McGeehan 2. Microcredit in France: Financial Support for Social Inclusion Stefanie Lämmermann 3. The Microcredit Sector in Italy: Small Initiatives in a Dynamic Scenario Simone di Castri 4. The Microcredit Sector in Bulgaria Kostadin Munev 5. Microcredit in Denmark Tuija Wallgren and Mohammad Naveed Awan 6. Microcredit in Portugal Manuel Brandão Alves 7. Microcredit in Austria Susanne Zurl-Meyer and Horst Maunz 8. Status of Microlending in Germany: An Empirical Survey of Programmes in 2006 Jan Evers and Stefanie Lahn 9. The Microlending Sector in Hungary: Microlending to SMEs István Kovács 10. Microcredit in Slovakia Allan Bussard and Beata Dobova 11. Microcredit in Luxembourg Véronique Faber 12. Microcredit in Norway Elisabet Ljunggren and Trude Emaus Holm 13. Microcredit in Sweden Ranjula Bali Swain 14. Microcredit in Belgium Annika Cayrol and Jean Marchand 15. Microcredit in Spain: The Role of Saving Banks Silvia Rico Garrido, Maricruz Lacalle Calderón and Bárbara Jayo Carboni 16. Microcredit in Romania Maria Doiciu and Diana Bialus 17. The State of Microfinance in Poland Agata Szostek 18. Microfinance in the Netherlands Margot Lobbezoo Conclusion Karl Dayson Index
