Development on Loan - Microcredit and Marginalisation in Rural China (Hardcover, 0)

Key to China's plans to promote rural development is the de-marginalisation of the countryside through the incorporation of rural areas into the urban-based market-oriented financial system. For this reason, Chinese development planners have turned to microcredit -- i.e. the provision of small-scale loans to 'financially excluded' rural households -- as a means of increasing 'financial consciousness' and facilitating rural de-marginalisation. Drawing on in-depth fieldwork in rural China, this book examines the formulation, implementation and outcomes of government-run microcredit programmes in China-illuminating the diverse roles that microcredit plays in local processes of socioeconomic development and the livelihoods of local actors. It details how microcredit facilitates de-marginalisation for some, while simultaneously exacerbating the marginalisation of others; and exposes the ways in which microcredit and other top-down development strategies reflect and reinforce the contradictions and paradoxes implicit in rural China's contemporary development landscape.

General

Imprint:	Amsterdam University Press
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Transforming Asia
Release date:	November 2019
Authors:	Nicholas Loubere
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	284
Edition:	0
ISBN-13:	978-9463722513
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Rural communities Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Microeconomics > General Promotions
LSN:	9463722513
Barcode:	9789463722513

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