Microfinance and women's empowerment in Bangladesh : unpacking the untold narratives / Faraha Nawaz.
This book examines the effects of policies and practices of microfinance NGOs in empowering rural women in Bangladesh. Nawaz seeks to unpack the untold narratives of women's empowerment and to fill the current knowledge gap in this area. The book goes beyond the narrow minimalist evaluation of...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cham :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2019]
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| Series: | Palgrave pivot.
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| Summary: | This book examines the effects of policies and practices of microfinance NGOs in empowering rural women in Bangladesh. Nawaz seeks to unpack the untold narratives of women's empowerment and to fill the current knowledge gap in this area. The book goes beyond the narrow minimalist evaluation of microfinance that only focuses on women's economic empowerment through their ability to access financial resources. Rather, it looks at whether and how microfinance empowers women in a holistic manner across the socio-cultural, psychological and political spheres of life. The author argues that microfinance reduces levels of poverty, which means that women are better able to meet their practical gender needs; however, they are not empowered unless they are also able to meet their strategic gender needs, including the transformation of gender power relations from the household to state arenas. Therefore, the book argues that in order to bring about higher levels of empowerment, microfinance programs must be combined with other services such as financial literacy, socioeconomic training, education, healthcare, social mobilization and legal support. Microfinance and Women's Empowerment in Bangladesh will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including Gender Studies, Development Studies, and Politics. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : color illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9783030135393 303013539X 3030135381 9783030135386 9783030135409 3030135403 9783030135416 3030135411 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 6, 2019) |