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Tra locale e globale. Sostenibilità ed empowerment nelle retoriche delle esperienze di microcredito

EtnoAntropologia, 2014
Muhammad Yunus (Nobel Peace Prize 2006) success in Bangladesh, has made microcredit a globally widespread practice. Since the early nineties, microcredit has been adopted by international development organizations as the privileged strategy not only in ...
Giovanna Guerzoni, Francesca Crivellaro
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Governance Structure of Microfinance Institutions: A Comparison of Models and Its Implication on Social Impact and Poverty Reduction

İbn Haldun Çalışmaları Dergisi, 2020
The purpose of this paper is to compare three different models of MFIs, namely microfinance banks (MFB), Microcredit programme (MCP) and rural development scheme (RDS), by focusing on their governance structures, and subsequently analyse their ...
Md Nazim Uddin, Hamdino Hamdan, Nor Azizan Che Embi, Salina Kassim, Norma Bt Md Saad   +4 more
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Microcredit and the Discourse of Empowerment: A Case Study in Jinotega, Nicaragua [PDF]

Berkeley Undergraduate Journal, 2013
Microcredit has become an increasingly popular strategy for improving the social, economic, and health status of women in the developing world. NGOs, government agencies and private enterprise have all put forth credit initiatives geared toward “women’s empowerment.” Despite the ubiquity of such programs, there is very little consensus about what it ...
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Empowering NGOs: The Microcredit Movement Through Foucault's Notion of Dispositif [PDF]

, 2001
This article develops a critical response to initiatives such as microcredit. The critical tools for understanding the shifts in the development project need to be extended beyond those approaches that center on economic relations.
Brigg, Morgan
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Peran Wanita dalam Pemberdayaan Ekonomi Kecil: Mikro Kredit di Kelurahan Petojo Utara

Binus Business Review, 2010
Women have a responsibility to meet the basic needs of families, when the husband has not been successful in adequately meeting family needs. Micro credit is taken from the method of Amanah Ikhtiar Malaysia (AIM), and applied in Petojo area, Central ...
Holly Deviarti
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When Poverty Becomes Profitable: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Microfinancial Development in Haiti [PDF]

, 2014
For the past thirty years, policymakers have lauded microfinance for its promises to reduce poverty and empower women in developing nations. First conceived by the Bangladeshi economist Muhammed Yunus and the bank he founded, microfinance has been hailed
Kleinman, Yaniv
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Loving to Straighten Out Development: Sexuality and ‘Ethnodevelopment’ in the World Bank’s Ecuadorian Lending [PDF]

, 2005
Gender staff in the World Bank -- the world's largest and most influential development institution -- have a policy problem. Having prioritised efforts to get women into paid employment as the "cure-all" for gender inequality they must deal with the work
A Aulestia, A. Aulestia, A. Eguiguren, A. Escobar, A. Fausto-Sterling, A. Pallares, A. Stoler, A. Wilson, A.M. Smith, C. Cohen, C. Moser, C. Moser, C. Moser, C. Payer, C. Velasquez, C.A. Wood, D. Cooper, D. Elson, D. Kyle, D. Williams, E. Hafner-Burton, E. Povinelli, E.N. Glenn, G. Hancock, G. Herrera Mosquera, G. Kleitz, H.G. Guamán, I. Vallejo Real, I. Vallejo Real, J. Butler, J. Carabine, J. Collins, J. Fox, J. Hendricks, J. Murphy, J. Stevens, J. Stiglitz, J. Terry, J.K. Gibson-Graham, J.M. Rahier, K. Bedford, K. Treakle, K.A. Rosemblatt, KATE BEDFORD, L Briggs, L. Meisch, L. North, M. Camacho, M. Conejo, M. Correia, M. Correia, M. Crain, M. de la Cadena, M. Gutmann, M. Waring, M. Yunus, M.J. Alexander, N. Folbre, P.R.O.D.E.P.I.N.E, P.R.O.D.E.P.I.N.E, R. Colloreado-Mansfeld, R. Muňoz Consejal, R. O’Brien, S. Hamilton, S. Mallaby, S. Phelan, S. Radcliffe, S. Sawyer, T. Laqueur, V.S. Peterson, World Bank, World Bank, World Bank, World Bank, World Bank, World Bank, World Bank, World Bank, X. Albo   +78 more
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Microcredit, the corporatization of nongovernmental organizations, and academic activism: The example of Professor Anu Muhammad [PDF]

, 2018
Based on an interview with academic-activist Professor Anu Muhammad, this edited transcript illuminates the corporatization of nongovernmental organizations, with specific reference to perpetuating the negative effects of neoliberal microcredit practices
Ahmed Q. K., Burawoy M., Doh J. P., Fernando J. L., Gramsci A., Hill Collins P, Hugh Willmott, Karim L., Karim L., Khan M. M., Laasonen S., Mair J., Mannan M., Marcuse P., Mir M., Muhammad A., Osmany S. R., Rahman A., Rashedur Chowdhury, Ratner C., Said E., Said E., Scott J. C., Stiles K., Teegen H., Yunus M.   +25 more
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Much effort, little impact: the politics of public microcredit programs in Malawi

Cogent Social Sciences
This paper contributes to locating the Malawian dynamics into an emerging discourse that argues that current microcredit programs are ineffective because they have become an instrument for serving international and domestic actors’ interests.
Richard Zidana, Bryson Nkhoma, Victor Kasulo   +2 more
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The International Labour Organisation and the ambivalent politics of financial inclusion in West Africa [PDF]

, 2016
This article examines the role of the International Labour Organization (ILO) in promoting ‘financial inclusion’ in West Africa. The role of the ILO in microfinance and financial inclusion has often been overlooked, in contrast to the role played by the ...
Bernards, Nick
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