An introduction to microfinance -- Microfinancial services and poor people -- Microfinance and poverty reduction -- Microfinance, gender, and social development -- Microfinance: innovations in product delivery -- Microinsurance -- Regulating and supervising microfinance institutions -- Impact...

Arguments for cross-disciplinary research in development studies have been applied recently to work on poverty, inequality and well-being. However, much research on these issues remains fragmented and, in particular, the intellectual barrier between economics and the other social science...