Contact Professor Malcolm Harper
- Email: e800725@cranfield.ac.uk
Background
Educated at Oxford, Harvard and Nairobi, Malcolm Harper, worked in marketing in England, and then taught at the University of Nairobi. He was Professor of Enterprise Development at Cranfield in the UK, and since 1995 he has worked independently, mainly in India. He has published on enterprise development, micro-finance and livelihoods, and on child protection.
He was the Chairman of Basix Finance for ten years, and is the Chairman of M-CRIL. He is Chair and board member of other institutions in the UK, the Netherlands and elsewhere, and has worked on poverty issues in South and SE Asia, Africa, China since 1970.
Publications
Articles In Journals
- Smita Premchander SP & Malcolm Harper MH. Guest editorial: Reaching the poorest with finance and enterprise support. Special issue: Finance for the ultra poor, 29(1)
- Malcolm Harper MH. Akhuwat of Lahore: Breaking the rules. Finance and enterprise development assistance for vulnerable and marginalozed people, 23(1)
- Badr El Din Ibrahim BEDI & Malcolm Harper MH. Crossfire: Islamic banking avoids interest payments and thus prevents rich investors profiting from the poor. Enterprise Development & Microfinance, 22(4)
- Malcolm Harper MH. Taking Stock: Agrarian distress in India - poor Indian farmers, suicides and government. Enterprise Development & Microfinance, 22(1)
- David Grace DG & Malcolm Harper MH. ‘Producer collectives, cooperatives and other types of group are not usually sustainable and do not deliver long-term benefits to smallholders’. Issue 2, 21(2)
- Malcolm Harper MH. Microfinance - a tentative neo-Marxist diagnosis, and what next?. Enterprise Development & Microfinance, 20(4)
- Jeanne Downing JD & Malcolm Harper MH. Crossfire: Microfinance has upstaged enterprise development, and finance is now in danger of doing the same to value chain interventions. Value chain finance, 19(4)
- Doyle Baker DB & Malcolm Harper MH. Value Chains. Enterprise Development & Microfinance, 18(2)