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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783589103321

Autore

Helms Brigit

Titolo

Access for all : : building inclusive financial systems / / Brigit Helms

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, DC : , : World Bank, , [2006]

copyright 2006

ISBN

1-280-30527-4

9786610305278

0-8213-6361-1

Descrizione fisica

xii, 170 pages : illustrations ; ; 23 cm

Disciplina

332.109172/4

Soggetti

Microfinance - Developing countries

Credit - Developing countries

Financial institutions - Developing countries

Financial services industry - Developing countries

Poor - Developing countries

Microfinance - Government policy - Developing countries

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; The Consultative Group to Assist the Poor; Key Principles of Microfinance; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Poor and Low-Income Clients; Chapter 3. Financial Service Providers: The Micro Level; Chapter 4. Financial Infrastructure: The Meso Level; Chapter 5. Governments: The Macro Level; Chapter 6. Funders; Chapter 7. Cross-Cutting Challenges; Chapter 8. Conclusion; Afterword; Recommended Reading and Web Sites; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In the past ten years, the world of microfinance has changed dramatically. The field has moved rapidly from early innovations in providing loans to help poor entrepreneurs start businesses to a bold vision of creating entire financial systems that work for the poor. Microfinance has proven to be an effective tool for reducing poverty and helping poor people to improve their lives. And yet a diverse range of potential clients still lack access to an array of financial services - not just credit for enterprise but also a safe place to save, the ability to



transfer funds to family members, insura

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910793023103321

Autore

Prendergast Thomas A (Thomas Augustine)

Titolo

Affective medievalism : love, abjection and discontent / / Thomas A. Prendergast and Stephanie Trigg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2018

©2018

ISBN

1-5261-4799-8

1-5261-4200-7

1-5261-2687-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 154 pages) : digital file(s)

Collana

Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture

Disciplina

940.1072

Soggetti

Middle Ages - Historiography

Literature, Medieval - History and criticism - Theory, etc

Middle Ages in literature

Medieval Literature

Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval

LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 134-147) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Medieval and medievalist practice -- 1. The space of time and the medievalist imaginary -- 2. Wonderful things -- 3. Fear, error and death: The abjection of the Middle Ages -- 4. Loving the past -- 5. Discontent in the age of mechanical reproduction -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This work argues that the temporal privilege of the medieval masks the extent to which the medieval and medievalistic are mutually constitutive and ultimately dependent not on absolutist epistemological claims but on how feelings and temperaments affect the way we approach the Middle Ages.