Contributors examine the ethical issues surrounding microfinance, including questions about exploitation, human rights, and efforts to promote global justice.

Introduction Tom Sorell; 1. Credit is not a right John Gershman and Jonathan Morduch; 2. Is there a human right to microfinance? Tom Sorell; 3. Financial inclusion, education, and human rights Kimberly Brownlee and Zofia Stemplowska; 4. Microfinance, non-ideal theory, and global distributive justice Daniel Butt; 5. Microfinance, poverty relief, and political justice Miriam Ronzoni and Laura Valentini; 6. Is exploitation permissible in microcredit? Lesley Sherratt; 7. What's wrong with exorbitant interest rates on microloans? Joakim Sandberg; 8. Tensions between financial and organisational sustainability: the problematic case of group-based microfinance and possible ways forward Ana Marr; 9. Freedom and credit Mark Hannam.