Green Microfinance: A New Frontier to Inclusive Financial Services

Moser, Rafael; Gonzalez, Lauro

doi:10.1590/s0034-759020160209

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“…Meaningful inclusion of the poor in decisionmaking may reduce their flood vulnerability (Adger 2006). Social protection measures, such as insurance, can reduce the vulnerability of the poor by transforming and protecting their livelihoods (Moser & Gonzalez 2016).…”

Section: Poverty Levels Of Flood Survivorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Flood survivors’ perspectives on vulnerability reduction to floods in Mbire district, Zimbabwe

Mucherera

Mavhura

2020

Jàmbá Journal of Disaster Risk Studies

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Section: Poverty Levels Of Flood Survivorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Flood survivors’ perspectives on vulnerability reduction to floods in Mbire district, Zimbabwe

Mucherera

Mavhura

2020

Jàmbá Journal of Disaster Risk Studies

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“…Today microfinance is perceived as a financial instrument that contributes to sustainable social and economic development [1,4,[6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18]. In the last four years, the use of microfinance has migrated into the domain of environmental sustainability ('green microfinance') as well [19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31]. Microfinance aims to help the poor on their path to an independent life and to achieve social justice.…”

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Science Mapping of the Global Knowledge Base on Microfinance: Influential Authors and Documents, 1989–2019

Zaby¹

2019

Sustainability

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The use of microfinance in poverty alleviation and, by extension, as an instrument for sustainable social and economic development, represents a novel idea in sustainable finance. This study employed science mapping to examine 4049 Scopus-indexed documents explicitly concerned with microfinance. The goals of the review were to document the distribution of microfinance literature by type, volume, time, and geography, and to identify influential authors, articles, and a potential intellectual structure of this knowledge base. The first microfinance research was conducted in 1989, but the field attracted increased attention only after 2006, when the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to microfinance pioneer Muhammad Yunus. This study does not find any single dominant school of thought in the field of microfinance, but rather identified three thematic research clusters: (1) a concentration on institutional aspects of microfinance, (2) scholars who used sophisticated research methods to evaluate the impact of microfinance, and (3) groundbreaking microfinance literature related to social justice more generally. As the first-ever, comprehensive bibliometric review of research on microfinance, this study provides benchmarks against which to assess the future evolution of this literature, a reference for scholars entering this domain, and targets for future development of this field of sustainability scholarship.

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“…We did not start out as financial institutions' (Roy, 2010: p. 102, p. 102) More recently, a broader set of debates has emerged exploring the (socio)material basis of microlending, and calling for alternative foundations. Prompted by debates on sustainability, a suggestion is to extend commercial and socio-economic norms with an environmental pillar to, thus shaping a kind of 'green microfinance' (Allet and Hudon, 2015;Forcella and Hudon, 2016;Moser and Gonzalez, 2015). Other experiments may stem from a growing interest in 'rent-free' Islamic microlending practices (Barden, 2010;Kaleem and Ahmed, 2010), the first connections that are made between the circular economy and microlending in popular media (Miyoshi, 2014), or the proposals for a basic income (Hanlon et al, 2010).…”

Section: Battling For Immobility: Despair and Hopementioning

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The social vs. commercial ‘Dingpolitik’ of microlending: Mapping the glocal issue trajectory of a ‘messy object’

Lagendijk¹,

Simons²

2022

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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Microlending (microcredit and microcredit) presents a complex, ‘glocal’ phenomenon meeting social concerns (poverty and community development) versus commercial interests, manifesting a myriad of practices and trends worldwide. This paper elaborates the concept of ‘issue trajectory’, enhanced by topological thinking, to understand the becoming of microlending and to consider possibilities for change. The issue trajectory maps microlending’s proliferation and divergence between 1980 and 2015, using an analytical lens drawing on a combination of the topological dimensions of mutability and mobility and Latour’s Dingpolitik. Using this lens, the study reveals how the continual grounding and proliferation of practices of microlending meet global drives towards standardization and financialization, and how this results in ‘problematization gaps’ between social and commercial aims. Through adaptation as well as confrontation, these gaps bend microlending’s issue trajectory towards new political modalities and publics, and potentially new forms of territorialization.

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Green Microfinance: A New Frontier to Inclusive Financial Services

Cited by 13 publications

References 13 publications

Flood survivors’ perspectives on vulnerability reduction to floods in Mbire district, Zimbabwe

Flood survivors’ perspectives on vulnerability reduction to floods in Mbire district, Zimbabwe

Science Mapping of the Global Knowledge Base on Microfinance: Influential Authors and Documents, 1989–2019

The social vs. commercial ‘Dingpolitik’ of microlending: Mapping the glocal issue trajectory of a ‘messy object’

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