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Microfinance is not simply banking; it is a development tool. It has been estimated that there are 500 million economically active poor people in the world operating microenterprises and small businesses. Most of them do not have access to adequate financial services. The purpose of this Handbook is to bring together in a single source guiding principles and tools that will promote sustainable microfinance and create viable institutions. The Handbook takes a global perspective, drawing on lessons learned from the experiences of microfinance practitioners, donors, and others throughout the worl

336.77 --- 339.96 --- Financial institutions --- Microfinance --- Micro-finance --- Microcredit --- Microenterprise lending --- Microlending --- Financial services industry --- Small business --- Financial intermediaries --- Lending institutions --- Associations, institutions, etc. --- 339.96 Ontwikkelingshulp. Ontwikkelingssamenwerking. Ontwikkelingsproblematiek --- Ontwikkelingshulp. Ontwikkelingssamenwerking. Ontwikkelingsproblematiek --- 336.77 Financiering. Krediet. Kredietverlening. --- Financiering. Krediet. Kredietverlening. --- Finance --- LDC / Developping Countries - Pays En Développement --- 333.714 --- 333.134 --- ambachtskrediet, beroepskrediet en volkskrediet. --- Volksbanken. --- Microfinance. --- Financial institutions. --- Financiering. Krediet. Kredietverlening --- Private finance --- Developing countries --- 338.340 --- Volksbanken --- ambachtskrediet, beroepskrediet en volkskrediet --- Algemene ontwikkeling in de Derde Wereld

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Once there was a golden age of American thrift, when citizens lived sensibly within their means and worked hard to stay out of debt. The growing availability of credit in this century, however, has brought those days to an end--undermining traditional moral virtues such as prudence, diligence, and the delay of gratification while encouraging reckless consumerism. Or so we commonly believe. In this engaging and thought-provoking book, Lendol Calder shows that this conception of the past is in fact a myth. Calder presents the first book-length social and cultural history of the rise of consumer credit in America. He focuses on the years between 1890 and 1940, when the legal, institutional, and moral bases of today's consumer credit were established, and in an epilogue takes the story up to the present. He draws on a wide variety of sources--including personal diaries and letters, government and business records, newspapers, advertisements, movies, and the words of such figures as Benjamin Franklin, Mark Twain, and P. T. Barnum--to show that debt has always been with us. He vigorously challenges the idea that consumer credit has eroded traditional values. Instead, he argues, monthly payments have imposed strict, externally reinforced disciplines on consumers, making the culture of consumption less a playground for hedonists than an extension of what Max Weber called the "iron cage" of disciplined rationality and hard work. Throughout, Calder keeps in clear view the human face of credit relations. He re-creates the Dickensian world of nineteenth-century pawnbrokers, takes us into the dingy backstairs offices of loan sharks, into small-town shops and New York department stores, and explains who resorted to which types of credit and why. He also traces the evolving moral status of consumer credit, showing how it changed from a widespread but morally dubious practice into an almost universal and generally accepted practice by World War II. Combining clear, rigorous arguments with a colorful, narrative style, Financing the American Dream will attract a wide range of academic and general readers and change how we understand one of the most important and overlooked aspects of American social and economic life.

Consumentenrecht --- Consumentisme --- Verenigde Staten --- US / United States of America - USA - Verenigde Staten - Etats Unis --- 339.325.1 --- 331.14 --- 331.162.4 --- 333.72 --- Evolutie van de consumptie. Budget van de huishoudens. --- Geschiedenis van de prijzen, de lonen en de verdeling van de rijkdom. --- Geschiedenis van het krediet. --- Krediet ingedeeld naar de bestemming. Verbruikskrediet --- Verenigde Staten. --- Consumer credit --- Consumption (Economics) --- Consumers --- History. --- Customers (Consumers) --- Shoppers --- Consumer demand --- Consumer spending --- Consumerism --- Spending, Consumer --- Consumer debt --- Persons --- Demand (Economic theory) --- Credit --- United States --- History --- Geschiedenis van de prijzen, de lonen en de verdeling van de rijkdom --- Geschiedenis van het krediet --- Evolutie van de consumptie. Budget van de huishoudens

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Macroeconomics tries to describe and explain the economywide movement of prices, output, and unemployment. The field has been sharply divided among various schools, including Keynesian, monetarist, new classical, and others. It has also been split between theorists and empiricists. Ray Fair is a resolute empiricist, developing and refining methods for testing theories and models. The field cannot advance without the discipline of testing how well the models approximate the data. Using a multicountry econometric model, he examines several important questions, including what causes inflation, how monetary authorities behave and what are their stabilization limits, how large is the wealth effect on aggregate consumption, whether European monetary policy has been too restrictive, and how large are the stabilization costs to Europe of adopting the euro. He finds, among other things, little evidence for the rational expectations hypothesis and for the so-called non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment (NAIRU) hypothesis. He also shows that the U.S. economy in the last half of the 1990s was not a "new age" economy.

Macroeconomics. --- AA / International- internationaal --- 305.95 --- 305.7 --- 303.8 --- Economics --- Econometrie van de lonen en de prijzen (inflatie). --- Econometrie van het gedrag van de financiële tussenpersonen. Monetaire econometrische modellen. Monetaire agregaten. vraag voor geld. Krediet. Rente. --- Econometrische behandeling van een onderwerp. --- Macroeconomics --- Econometrische behandeling van een onderwerp --- Econometrie van het gedrag van de financiële tussenpersonen. Monetaire econometrische modellen. Monetaire agregaten. vraag voor geld. Krediet. Rente --- Econometrie van de lonen en de prijzen (inflatie)

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""A great write-up on the art of banking. Essential reading for anyone working in finance.""Dan Cunningham, Senior Euro Cash & OBS Dealer, KBC Bank NV, London ""Focused and succinct review of the key issues in bank risk management.""Graeme Wolvaardt, Head of Market Risk Control, Europe Arab Bank plc, London The importance of banks to the world's economic system cannot be overstated. The foundation of consistently successful banking practice remains efficient asset-liability management and liquidity risk management. This book introduces the key concepts of banking,

Private finance --- Banks and banking. --- Bank liquidity --- Asset-liability management. --- Management. --- AA / International- internationaal --- 333.130.0 --- 333.605 --- 333.741.0 --- Private banken: algemeen. Studies over de organisatie en de techniek van de banken --- Nieuwe financiële instrumenten. --- krediet op korte termijn. geldmarkt: Algemeenheden. --- Bank liquidity - Management. --- Bank liquidity -- Management. --- Banks and banking --- Asset-liability management --- Finance --- Business & Economics --- Banking --- Management --- Asset-liability management (Banking) --- Funds management --- Agricultural banks --- Banking industry --- Commercial banks --- Depository institutions --- Financial institutions --- Liquidity (Economics) --- Money --- Investments --- Risk management --- E-books --- Nieuwe financiële instrumenten --- krediet op korte termijn. geldmarkt: Algemeenheden --- Insurance --- Banques --- Gestion du risque

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An important recent advance in macroeconomics is the development of dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) macromodels. The use of DSGE models to study monetary policy, however, has led to paradoxical and puzzling results on a number of central monetary issues including price determinacy and liquidity effects. In Money, Interest, and Policy, Jean-Pascal Benassy argues that moving from the standard DSGE models - which he calls "Ricardian" because they have the famous "Ricardian equivalence" property-to another, "non-Ricardian" model would resolve many of these issues. A Ricardian model represents a household as a homogeneous family of infinitely lived individuals, and Benassy demonstrates that a single modification-the assumption that new agents are born over time (which makes the model non-Ricardian)-can bridge the current gap between monetary intuitions and facts, on one hand, and rigorous modeling, on the other.After comparing Ricardian and non-Ricardian models, Benassy introduces a model that synthesizes the two approaches, incorporating both infinite lives and the birth of new agents. Using this model, he considers a number of issues in monetary policy, including liquidity effects, interest rate rules and price determinacy, global determinacy, the Taylor principle, and the fiscal theory of the price level. Finally, using a simple overlapping generations model, he analyzes optimal monetary and fiscal policies, with a special emphasis on optimal interest rate rules.

Money --- Equilibrium (Economics) --- Mathematical models --- AA / International- internationaal --- 305.7 --- 333.80 --- -Equilibrium (Economics) --- -339.53 --- Currency --- Monetary question --- Money, Primitive --- Specie --- Standard of value --- Exchange --- Finance --- Value --- Banks and banking --- Coinage --- Currency question --- Gold --- Silver --- Silver question --- Wealth --- Econometrie van het gedrag van de financiële tussenpersonen. Monetaire econometrische modellen. Monetaire agregaten. vraag voor geld. Krediet. Rente. --- Geld-, bank- en kredietpolitiek. Kapitaalmarkt en -rente: algemeenheden. --- Mathematical models. --- ECONOMICS/Political Economy --- ECONOMICS/Macroeconomics --- 339.53 --- Econometrie van het gedrag van de financiële tussenpersonen. Monetaire econometrische modellen. Monetaire agregaten. vraag voor geld. Krediet. Rente --- Geld-, bank- en kredietpolitiek. Kapitaalmarkt en -rente: algemeenheden --- Money - Mathematical models --- Equilibrium (Economics) - Mathematical models