Microfinance

Perils and Prospects

Jude L. Fernando - Collection Routledge Studies in Development Economics

242 pages, parution le 01/03/2005

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Résumé

This book provides a much-needed historical, political and economic dimension to the current knowledge on microfinance. Collectively, the contributors chart the relationship between the prevailing popularity of microfinance and the consolidation of neo-liberal economic ideology worldwide.

Examining current macro-economic trends this volume analyses the historical confluence of microfinance with feminist notions of empowerment. This book explores the processes and the extent to which gender hierarchies are institutionalized in development, and examines the ensuing implications. Microfinance offers programmatic and procedural guidelines for designing microfinance programs-and practicing a kind of development more generally-that could engage women's solidarity to challenge existing patterns of subordination.

Microfinance will prove essential reading for students, academics and practitioners in development economics, gender studies and social and cultural anthropology.

L'auteur - Jude L. Fernando

Jude Fernando is Assistant Professor of International Development at Clark University.

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Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Discourse of microcredit: framing and disciplining the subjects of development
The global political economy of microfinance and poverty reduction: locating local "livelihoods" in political analysis
Disciplining the Developmental Subject: Neoliberal Power and Governance through Microcredit
Social Capital, Microfinance, and the Politics of Development
Rebuilding Social Capital in Post Conflict Regions. Women's Village Banking in Ayacucho, Peru and in Highland Guatemala
Banking on Culture: Microcredit as Incentives for Cultural Conservation in Mali
The Darker Side to Microfinance: Evidence from Cajamarca, Peru
Microcredit and Poverty Reduction: Trade-Off Between Institutional Success and Borrowers' Livelihoods
Banking on Bananas, Crediting Crafts: Financing Women's Work in the Philippine Cordillera
Microcredit and Empowerment of Women: Visibility Without Power

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Routledge
Auteur(s)	Jude L. Fernando
Collection	Routledge Studies in Development Economics
Parution	01/03/2005
Nb. de pages	242
Format	16 x 24
Couverture	Relié
Poids	513g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780415328746
ISBN13	978-0-415-32874-6