| Why doesn’t microfinance work M Bateman The Destructive Rise of Local, 2010 | 1296* | 2010 |
| Microfinance and the illusion of development: From hubris to nemesis in thirty years M Bateman, HJ Chang World Economic Review, 2012 | 556 | 2012 |
| The microfinance illusion M Bateman, HJ Chang Available at SSRN 2385174, 2009 | 271 | 2009 |
| Neo-liberalism, SME development and the role of Business Support Centres in the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe M Bateman Small Business Economics 14 (4), 275-298, 2000 | 160 | 2000 |
| Is fin-tech the new panacea for poverty alleviation and local development? Contesting Suri and Jack’s M-Pesa findings published in Science M Bateman, M Duvendack, N Loubere Review of African Political Economy 46 (161), 480-495, 2019 | 133 | 2019 |
| Confronting microfinance: Undermining sustainable development M Bateman Kumarian Press, 2011 | 132 | 2011 |
| Microfinance as a development and poverty reduction policy: is it everything it's cracked up to be? M Bateman Overseas Development Institute, 2011 | 114 | 2011 |
| The rise and fall of Muhammad Yunus and the microcredit model M Bateman International Development Studies Working Paper, 2014 | 111 | 2014 |
| The role of microfinance in contemporary rural development finance policy and practice: imposing neoliberalism as ‘best practice’ M Bateman Journal of Agrarian Change 12 (4), 587-600, 2012 | 109 | 2012 |
| Compounding crises of social reproduction: Microfinance, over-indebtedness and the COVID-19 pandemic K Brickell, F Picchioni, N Natarajan, V Guermond, L Parsons, G Zanello, ... World Development 136, 105087, 2020 | 82 | 2020 |
| The rise and fall of global microcredit: development, debt and disillusion M Bateman, S Blankenburg, R Kozul-Wright Routledge, 2018 | 70 | 2018 |
| Business cultures in central and eastern Europe M Bateman Butterworth-Heinemann, 1997 | 67 | 1997 |
| Seduced and betrayed: exposing the contemporary microfinance phenomenon K Bateman, Milford: Maclean University of New Mexico Press, 2017 | 66* | 2017 |
| The age of microfinance: Destroying Latin American economies from the bottom up M Bateman ÖFSE Working Paper, 2013 | 62 | 2013 |
| A post-Washington consensus approach to local economic development in Latin America? An example from Medellín, Colombia M Bateman, J Duran Ortiz, K Maclean An Example from Medellín, Colombia (April 25, 2011), 2011 | 54 | 2011 |
| La Era de las Microfinanzas: Destruyendo las economías desde abajo M Bateman Ola financiera 6 (15), 1-77, 2013 | 53 | 2013 |
| How lending to the poor began, grew, and almost destroyed a generation in India M Bateman Development and Change 43 (6), 1385-1402, 2012 | 51 | 2012 |
| South Africa's post-apartheid microcredit experiment: moving from state-enforced to market-enforced exploitation M Bateman Forum for Social Economics 48 (1), 69-97, 2019 | 48 | 2019 |
| South Africa's post-apartheid microcredit-driven calamity M Bateman Law, Democracy & Development 18 (1), 92-134, 2014 | 48 | 2014 |
| New wave'microfinance institutions in south-east Europe: towards a more realistic assessment of impact M Bateman Small Enterprise Development 14 (3), 56-65, 2003 | 47 | 2003 |
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