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An edition of Microfinance and its discontents (2011)

Microfinance and its discontents

women in debt in Bangladesh

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In 2006 the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh won the Nobel Peace Prize for its innovative microfinancing operations. This path-breaking study of gender, grassroots globalization, and neoliberalism in Bangladesh looks critically at the Grameen Bank and three of the leading NGOs in the country. Amid euphoria over the benefits of microfinance, Lamia Karim offers a timely and sobering perspective on the practical, and possibly detrimental, realities for poor women inducted into microfinance operations.

In a series of ethnographic cases, Karim shows how NGOs use social codes of honor and shame to shape the conduct of women and to further an agenda of capitalist expansion. These unwritten policies subordinate poor women to multiple levels of debt that often lead to increased violence at the household and community levels, thereby weakening women’s ability to resist the onslaught of market forces.

A compelling critique of the relationship between powerful NGOs and the financially strapped women beholden to them for capital, this book cautions us to be vigilant about the social realities within which women and loans circulate—realities that often have adverse effects on the lives of the very women these operations are meant to help.

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Pages
296

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Cover of: Microfinance and its discontents
Microfinance and its discontents: women in debt in Bangladesh
2011, University of Minnesota Press, Univ Of Minnesota Press
in English
Cover of: Microfinance and Its Discontents
Microfinance and Its Discontents: Women in Debt in Bangladesh
2011, University of Minnesota Press
in English
Cover of: Microfinance and Its Discontents
Microfinance and Its Discontents: Women in Debt in Bangladesh
2011, University of Minnesota Press
in English
Cover of: Microfinance and Its Discontents
Microfinance and Its Discontents: Women in Debt in Bangladesh
2011, University of Minnesota Press
in English
Cover of: Microfinance and Its Discontents
Microfinance and Its Discontents: Women in Debt in Bangladesh
2011, University of Minnesota Press
in English

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Table of Contents

Neoliberalism, microfinance, and women's empowerment
The structural transformation of the NGO sphere
The research terrain
The everyday mediations of microfinance
The social life of debt
NGOs, clergy, and contested "democracy"
Power/knowledge in microfinance
From disciplined subjects to political agents?

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Minneapolis

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
332
Library of Congress
HG178.33.B3 K37 2011, HG178.33.B3K37 2011

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
296

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24524388M
ISBN 13
9780816670949, 9780816670956
LCCN
2010032184
OCLC/WorldCat
656556189

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