Poverty, Social Exclusion and Microfinance in Britain

by Thomas Fisher, Ed Mayo, Ben Rogaly

This is an analysis of the potential of community-based financial services to reduce poverty and combat social exclusion in Britain. From this base, the authors move to a critical review of the outcomes of microfinance interventions around the world. They consider innovative economic responses to poverty in countries such as Bangladesh and Bolivia. Then drawing on their own research, they set out ways to counter financial exclusion in Britain; how...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0855984139
• ISBN13: 9780855984137
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Oxfam
• Length: 176 Pages