Debate: Moving Financial Inclusion Beyond Microfinance (Post-Event Resources)

  • Date Posted: February 1, 2012
  • Authors: Chuck Waterfield, Milford Bateman, David Roodman
  • Document Types: Tool, Other
  • Donor Type: Non-US Government Agency

If microfinance has not achieved its objective in substantially reducing poverty, what are the pathways to financial inclusion that will contribute to this objective?

David Roodman, the author of "Due Diligence: An Impertinent Inquiry into Microfinance" and Milford Bateman, the author of "Why Doesn't Microfinance Work? The Destructive Rise of Local Neoliberalism" debated the audience selected question in a modified parliamentary-style debate moderated by Chuck Waterfield, founder of MFTransparency.