dc.contributor.author | Welle-Strand, Anne | |
dc.contributor.author | Sitter, Nick | |
dc.contributor.author | Kjøllesdal, Kristian | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2010-10-05T13:54:30Z | |
dc.date.available | 2010-10-05T13:54:30Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2010 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Managing Global Transitions, Vol. 8, No. 2 (2010), p. 145-166. | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1854-6935 | |
dc.identifier.other | http://www2.fm-kp.si/zalozba/ISSN/1581-6311.htm | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11250/93334 | |
dc.description | Utgiver-policy: Åpen tilgang / Open Access | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | Microfinance is often hailed both as a tool for fighting poverty and as a tool for post-conflict reconciliation. This paper explores the use of microfinance in post-civil war Bosnia and Herzegovina, assessing its results in terms of both goals. As it combined high unemployment With a highly educated population in an institutionally open context, Bosnia and Herzegovina provides a crucial test of the effect of microfinance. If nambiguous signs of success cannot be found in a case with such favorable conditions, this would raise serious questions about the potential benefits of microfinance. The paper draws together evidence from a series of independent reviews of microfinance in Bosnia and Herzegovina, to assess its impact in terms of economic performance, the economic system, social welfare and post-conflict integration. Based on this case study, microfinance appears a better tool for dealing With poverty than with social integration or institution building. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | Faculty of management Koper Press, University of Primorska, Slovenia | en_US |
dc.title | Assessing microfinance: The Bosnia and Herzegovina case | en_US |
dc.type | Journal article | en_US |
dc.type | Peer reviewed | en_US |
dc.source.pagenumber | 145-166 | en_US |