Description |
1 online resource (161 pages) |
Series |
Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series |
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Routledge contemporary South Asia series.
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Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Provenance of poster and web materials; 1 The empowerment project; 2 Microcredit as an empowerment strategy; 3 Unpacking microcredit discourses; 4 Implanting microcredit: BRAC and Grameen Bank officers; 5 Envisioning microcredit; 6 The false promise: microcredit and empowering poor women in rural Bangladesh; Appendix A: tables of income, land ownership and occupation of Korai households (in 2005); Appendix B: the 16 decisions of the Grameen Bank; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Summary |
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 |
Notes |
Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Microfinance -- Bangladesh
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Women -- Bangladesh -- Economic conditions
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Finance.
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Microfinance
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Women -- Economic conditions
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Bangladesh
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Rahman, Taskinur
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McAllister, Jim
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ISBN |
9781136868221 |
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1136868224 |
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1306574609 |
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9781306574600 |
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9781136868214 |
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1136868216 |
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