Microfinance - a tentative neo-Marxist diagnosis, and what next?
Karl Marx postulated that the owners of capital could use it to exploit those who only have their labour to sell; this article demonstrates private capital can use microfinance lending to extract the surplus from poor people in developing countries by charging high interest rates on loans that they use for running microbusinesses. The author makes recommendations that may help to make microfinance less exploitative.- Development impact bonds: learning from the Asháninka cocoa and coffee case in Peru
- Trade-off between outreach and sustainability of microfinance institutions: evidence from sub-Saharan Africa
- Value chain development for rural poverty reduction: A reality check and a warning
- Impact assessment of commodity standards: towards inclusive value chains
- What is cocoa sustainability? Mapping stakeholders’ socio-economic, environmental, and commercial constellations of priorities