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Microcredit and Women's Empowerment - A Case Study of Bangladesh (Paperback)
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Microcredit and Women's Empowerment - A Case Study of Bangladesh (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
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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 are often confused. The book goes on to establish
that the well-publicised success stories of the microcredit
programme are blown out of proportion, and that the dynamics of
collective responsibility for repayment of loans by a group of
women borrowers - usually seen to be a tool for the success of
microcredit - is in fact no less repressive than traditional debt
collectors. This book makes a contribution to development debates;
challenging adherents to more closely specify those conditions
under which microcredit does indeed have validity, as well as
providing insights relevant to South Asian Studies and Development
Studies.
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