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Author Faraizi, Aminul Haque.

Title Microcredit and Women's Empowerment : a case study of Bangladesh / Aminul Faraizi, Taskinur Rahman and Jim McAllister
Published Hoboken : Routledge, Taylor and Francis, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (161 pages)
Series Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
Routledge contemporary South Asia series.
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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Subject Microfinance -- Bangladesh
Women -- Bangladesh -- Economic conditions
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Finance.
Microfinance
Women -- Economic conditions
Bangladesh
Form Electronic book
Author Rahman, Taskinur
McAllister, Jim
ISBN 9781136868221
1136868224
1306574609
9781306574600
9781136868214
1136868216