Topic: Jonathan Morduch

Economics Rich Financial Lives of Poor People

Science - 790 days ago
Portfolios of the Poor How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day by Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford, and Orlanda Ruthven Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2009. The authors document the variety of ways by which poor families manage ...

How To Measure Microfinance's Social Impact

Forbes - 805 days ago
For three decades, microfinance institutions have given out small loans to the world's poor--mostly women--and amassed hundreds if not thousands of case studies showing that the loans help alleviate poverty, improve health, increase education and promote women's empowerment. In the ...