1st Edition
Microcredit and Women's Empowerment A Case Study of Bangladesh
160 Pages
by
Routledge
160 Pages
by
Routledge
160 Pages
by
Routledge
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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,... Read more
1. The Empowerment Project 2. Microcredit as Empowerment Strategy 3. Unpacking Microcredit Discourses 4. Implanting Microcredit: BRAC and the Grameen Bank officers 5. Envisioning Microcredit 6. The False Promise: Microcredit and empowering poor women in rural Bangladesh
Biography
Aminul Faraizi is Senior Lecturer of Sociology in the Department of Behavioural and Social Sciences at CQUniversity, Australia.
Taskinur Rahman is Chief Executive of the Assistance for Social Organization and Development (ASOD), Bangladesh.
Jim McAllister is Honorary Research Fellow of CQUniversity, Australia.
