Microcredit and women's empowerment : a case study of Bangladesh / Aminul Faraizi, Taskinur Rahman and Jim McAllister.
"Using the case study of Bangladesh and based on a long term participatory observation method, this book investigates the 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...
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| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2011.
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| Series: | Routledge contemporary South Asia series.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.