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Murphy, Crystal. Microcredit meltdown: the rise and fall of South Sudan's post-conflict microcredit sector / Crystal Murphy. — 1 online resource (x, 259 pages) — <URL:http://elib.fa.ru/ebsco/1949413.pdf>.

Record create date: 9/13/2018

Subject: Microfinance; Poverty; Poverty.

Collections: EBSCO

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Table of Contents

  • Cover
  • Microcredit Meltdown
  • Microcredit Meltdown: The Rise and Fall of South Sudan’s Post-Conflict Microcredit Sector
  • Copyright page
  • Contents
  • List of Figures and Tables
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1
  • From a Galaxy Far, Far Away to the Souq
    • How Did Microcredit Get to South Sudan?
    • Neoliberal Ideology in Economic Development
    • The Roots of Moral Industriousness
    • What the Donors Believe the Poor Need
    • Framing Microcredit
    • Microcredit as Peacebuilding
    • The Working Out of Faiths
    • Notes
  • Chapter 2
  • Does Microcredit Work?
    • How We Know What We Know About Poverty Interventions
    • What We Know About Microfinance Impact
    • Shortcomings of Popular Microfinance Measurement Approaches
    • Case Study of a Case Study
    • Parsimony and Scope
    • Notes
  • Chapter 3
  • I Can’t Exchange for Dollars But Will You Talk with Me?
    • Postpositive Movement in Understanding Poverty Alleviation
    • Project Methodology
    • What Are Data?
    • Sampling for Interviews
    • Beginning a Field Study
    • Securing and Carrying Out Interviews
    • Dealing with Biases and Positionality
    • Data Analysis
    • Grounded Theory amid Real-time Evolutions
    • Notes
  • Chapter 4
  • Blueprints and Architects
    • Institutional Policy Finds a Place on the Ground
    • Donor Harmonization
    • Inside the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee
    • Inside Finance Sudan Limited
    • Notes
  • Chapter 5
  • Cookie Cutters and Meeting People
    • Group Loans and Microcredit
    • How to Get a Microloan in Juba
    • How to Join a Group in Juba
    • A Failed Microfinance Industry: De Facto Preferential Lending To Blame?
    • Notes
  • Chapter 6
  • What’s Trust Got to Do with It?
    • Supposing That War Destroyed Trust
    • Social Capital within Solidarity Groups
    • Vignette 1: Just Here for Business
    • Vignette 2: A Classifiably Positive Experience
    • Vignette 3: Old Friends Might Need New Watching
    • Vignette 4: Tiny Tomato Tables
    • Vignette 5: Making the Rounds
    • Vignette 6: Home Visits and the Shared Meaning of Payments
    • Finding and Using Trust in a New Place
    • Choosing Not to Spend Social Capital
    • Notes
  • Chapter 7
  • Borrower Breakdowns
    • What’s Not Working?
    • Import Dependency and High Wholesale Prices
    • Currency Curses and Trader Circuits
    • Keeping Up With Competition
    • The Microcredit Specific Critiques
    • The Challenges Were Many but What Broke the Camel’s Back?5
    • Leaving versus Being Dropped
    • Quit While They Are Ahead
    • Quit While They Are Behind
    • The Limits of Microcredit Under Duress
    • Notes
  • Chapter 8
  • “They Think Food Grows On Trucks”
    • Discovering Dependency Syndrome
    • Because They Are Poor, Not Because They Are Hardworking
    • Custom, Cows, and Capacity
    • Independence Is a New Ballgame
    • Scars as Credit Scores
    • The Malpractice of Misdiagnosis
    • Independence, Really?
    • Notes
  • Chapter 9
  • Autopsy
    • SUMI’s fall from Grace
    • Finance Sudan’s Transformation
    • Spectacle, Confusion, and Momentum
    • An Unexpected Farewell
    • Transition to Profits
    • The Other Eager Financier Lurking in Town
    • And the Fall . . .
    • Notes
  • Conclusion
    • Juba, Where the Bangladesh Consensus Agreed with the Washington Consensus
    • Re-envisioning Microfinance for Post-Conflict Environments
    • Better Vision Begs Better Data
    • Tailoring Programs From the Ground Up: Lessons from Juba
    • The Gray
    • Notes
  • Glossary of Abbreviations
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author

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