Paromita Sanyal

Credit to Capabilities

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book focuses on how group-based microcredit programs in India facilitate women's empowerment through the mechanism of group participation and networking.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 638g
• ISBN-13: 9781107077676
• ISBN-10: 1107077672
• Artikelnr.: 41609930

Autorenporträt

Paromita Sanyal is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Cornell University, New York. Her research interests include development, gender, economic sociology, and participatory forms of governance like deliberative democracy (gram sabha in India). She has been previously affiliated with Harvard University, Massachusetts and the Development Research Group at the World Bank.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The global trajectory of microcredit
2. Agency
3. Converting loans into leverage
4. The power of participation
5. Microcredit and collective action
6. Culture and microcredit: why socio-religious dimensions matter
7. Loans and well-being
8. Interpreting microcredit: beyond the salvation/exploitation alternatives
9. Epilogue: the future of microcredit.