Course teacher(s)
Marek HUDON (Coordinator)ECTS credits
5
Language(s) of instruction
english
Course content
1. Roots of microfinance (ROSCAs and cooperatives)
2. Management structure of microfinance institutions
3. Group lending
4. Beyond group lending
5. Savings and insurance
6. Empowerment and gender issues in microfinance
7. Ethical issues related to interest rates
8. Impact
Objectives (and/or specific learning outcomes)
At the end of the course, the students will be able to :
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Critically think about social entreprises (microfinance)
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Understand different microfinance products
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Develop some reasoning on management issues of social entreprises
Teaching methods and learning activities
Lectures
Exercises
Case studies
Contribution to the teaching profile
The course contributes to the development of the following skills :
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Analyse change contexts from an integrative perspective, making sense of all available empirical data with an innovative and rigourous theoretical framework.
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Recommend practical and creative managerial solutions to the most pressing organizational and societal problems.
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Negotiate project recommendations across cultures and stakeholder groups to increase organizational readiness for change.
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Operationalize negotiated solutions into actionable managerial strategies.
References, bibliography, and recommended reading
The main text for this course is The Economics of Microfinance, 2010, by Beatriz Armendáriz and Jonathan Morduch, published by MIT Press. Other material for the course includes a number of published and unpublished papers, which can be downloaded electronically.
Other information
Contacts
marek.hudon@ulb.ac.be
Evaluation
Method(s) of evaluation
- Oral examination
Oral examination
Oral exam
Mark calculation method (including weighting of intermediary marks)
100% oral exam
Language(s) of evaluation
- english