Microcredit and Women's Empowerment : A Case Study of Bangladesh Hardback
by Aminul Faraizi, Taskinur Rahman, Jim McAllister
Part of the Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series series
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Using a case study of Bangladesh, and based on a long term participatory observation method, this book investigates claims of the success of microcredit, as well as the critiques of it, in the context of women’s empowerment.
It confronts the distinction between women’s increasing wealth as a consequence of the success of microcredit programmes and their apparent non-commensurate empowerment, looking at two organisations (the Grameen Bank and the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee) as they operate in two localities in rural Bangladesh, in order to discover how enrichment and empowerment are often confused. The book goes on to establish that the well-publicised success stories of the microcredit programme are blown out of proportion, and that the dynamics of collective responsibility for repayment of loans by a group of women borrowers – usually seen to be a tool for the success of microcredit – is in fact no less repressive than traditional debt collectors.
This book makes a contribution to development debates; challenging adherents to more closely specify those conditions under which microcredit does indeed have validity, as well as providing insights relevant to South Asian Studies and Development Studies.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:160 pages, 18 Tables, black and white; 24 Halftones, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:20/12/2010
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- ISBN:9780415584906
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Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:160 pages, 18 Tables, black and white; 24 Halftones, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:20/12/2010
- Category:
- ISBN:9780415584906
