Crossfire: ‘Payday lenders and similar businesses provide an essential service at a reasonable price’
Payday lending in the UK and other developed countries usually involves small amounts lent for quite short periods and attracting high interest rates, and thus shares many of the features of microfinance. Russell Hamblin-Boone and Fraser Sutherland discuss the role of payday lending in the UK.- 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