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MAYA PUBLISHERS PRIVATE LIMITED Conversations with Practitioners by Guy Winship
This is a collection of interviews with leading microfinance practitioners and specialists discussing the challenges facing microfinance institutions as they attempt to become more market-oriented, competitive and sustainable. It was written by a recognised leader in the field on the basis of extensive interviews with leading practitioners and experts, the book is an important and much demanded contribution to the literature on microfinance. This book was written at the request of many microfinance institutions that have been struggling with the sea-change currently underway in the industry, as it matures and moves towards a market-led basis. Reaching the huge untapped market for microfinance entails building the capacity of financial institutions to innovate to meet the diverse and changing needs of a broad range of poor clients - in short a market-led approach. Market-led approaches present many problems and challenges for microfinance professionals. Microfinance practitioners want to hear the views and experiences of the successes and failures of their peers as well as advise from 'experts'. Foreword: Making Waves / Graeme WynnPrefacePart 1: Introduction1 Fixing the Flow: The Things We Make of Water2 Relational Dialectics: Putting Things in Fluid TermsPart 2: The History of Modern Water3 Intimations of Modern Water4 From Premodern Waters to Modern Water5 The Hydrologic Cycle(s): Scientific and Sacred6 The Hortonian Hydrologic Cycle7 Reading the Resource: Modern Water, the Hydrologic Cycle, and the Stat8 Culmination: Global WaterPart 3: The Constitutional Crisis of Modern Water9 The Constitution of Modern Water10 Modern Water in Crisis11 Sustaining Modern Water: The New "Global Water Regime"Part 4: Conclusion: What Becomes of Water12 HydrolecticsNotesBibliographyIndex