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- Title
Does Microcredit “Empower”? Reflections on the Grameen Bank Debate.
- Authors
Selinger, Evan
- Abstract
Recent debates about the Grameen Bank’s microlending practices depict participating female borrowers as having fundamentally empowering or disempowering experiences. I argue that this discursive framework may be too reductive: it can conceal how technique and technology simultaneously facilitate relations of dependence and independence; and it can diminish our capacity to understand and assess innovative development initiatives.
- Subjects
MICROFINANCE; LOANS; DEBT; DEBT service; FINANCIAL aid; DISCHARGE of debt; CONSUMER credit; DEBT relief; GRAMEEN Bank (Company)
- Publication
Human Studies, 2008, Vol 31, Issue 1, p27
- ISSN
0163-8548
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10746-007-9076-3