Jude L. Fernando (ed.)

Microfinance

Perils and Prospects
Herausgeber: Fernando, Jude L

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a much-needed historical, political and economic dimension to the current knowledge on microfinance. Collectively, the contributors chart the relationship between the prevailing popularity of microfinance and the consolidation of neo-liberal economic ideology worldwide. Examining current macro-economic trends this volume analyses the historical confluence of microfinance with feminist notions of empowerment. This book explores the processes and the extent to which gender hierarchies are institutionalized in development, and examines the ensuing implications." Microfinance" offers programmatic and procedural guidelines for designing microfinance programs-and practicing a kind of development more generally-that could engage women's solidarity to challenge existing patterns of subordination. "Microfinance" will prove essential reading for students, academics and practitioners in development economics, gender studies and social and cultural anthropology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 163mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 521g
• ISBN-13: 9780415328746
• ISBN-10: 0415328748
• Artikelnr.: 21535321

Autorenporträt

Jude Fernando is Assistant Professor of International Development at Clark University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Contributors Acknowledgements 1: Introduction: Discourse
of microcredit: framing and disciplining the subjects of development Jude L
Fernando 2: The global political economy of microfinance and poverty
reduction: locating local livelihoods in political analysis Heloise Weber
3: Disciplining the Developmental Subject: Neoliberal Power and Governance
through Microcredit Morgan Brigg 4: Social Capital, Microfinance, and the
Politics of Development Katharine N. Rankin 5: Rebuilding Social Capital in
Post Conflict Regions. Women's Village Banking in Ayacucho, Peru and in
Highland Guatemala Denise Humphreys Babbington and Arelis Gómez 6: Banking
on Culture: Microcredit as Incentives for Cultural Conservation in Mali
Tara Deubel 7: The Darker Side to Microfinance: Evidence from Cajamarca,
Peru Katie Wright 8: Banking on Bananas, Crediting Crafts: Financing
Women's Work in the Philippine Cordillera B. Lynne Milgram 9: Microcredit
and Empowerment of Women: Visibility Without Power Jude L. Fernando