Shahrukh Rafi Khan, Natasha Ansari

A Microcredit Alternative in South Asia (eBook, PDF)

Akhuwat's Experiment

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores Akhuwat (literally brotherhood), a rapidly growing Pakistani NGO formed in 2001, which addresses the shortcomings of conventional microfinance. Its vision is of a society built on empathy and social solidarity and its mission is that of creating self-sufficiency among the entrepreneurial poor.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351174572
• Artikelnr.: 53368385

Autorenporträt

Shahrukh Rafi Khan is currently a Mount Holyoke College Research Associate. He has published extensively in refereed journals and authored and edited several books. His recent books include a History of Development Economics Thought (Routledge, 2014) and Market as Means not Master: Towards New Developmentalism (Routledge, 2010).

Natasha Ansari is a Research Associate at the Collective for Social Science Research. She is one of the lead researchers on the Value Chains pillar for the research consortium Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA) in Pakistan.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Conceptual and institutional issues 1. Introduction 2. Altruism and
faith inspired giving 3. Altruism in Pakistan and Akhuwat's altruistic
initiatives 4. Critiques of conventional microcredit 5. The Akhuwat
interest free microcredit model Part II: Empirical assessment 6. Akhuwat's
microcredit alternative 7: Promoting self-sufficiency via enterprise 8:
Policy issues Part III: Summary and conclusion