1. An Introduction to Microfinance 2. Microfinancial Services and Poor People 3. Microfinance and Poverty Reduction 4. Microfinance, Gender and Social Development 5. Microfinance: Innovations in Product Delivery 6. Microinsurance 7. Regulating and Supervising Microfinance Institutions 8. Impact Assessment of Microfinance 9. The Future of Microfinance

David Hulme is Professor of Development Studies at the Institute for Development Policy and Management, Associate Director of the Brooks World Poverty Institute and Director of the Chronic Poverty Research Centre at the University of Manchester.

Thankom Arun is Reader in International Finance at Lancashire Business School, University of Central Lancashire and Honorary Senior Fellow at the Schoool of Environment and Development at the University of Manchester.

This timely book, written by one of the major players in the UK in development economics explores, amongst others, topics such as microfinance and poverty reduction, microinsurance and regulating, and supervising microfinance institutions.