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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 ...
Kristen Norman
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, 2006 The majority of the poor people in the world today are women. Women are not only more poor men, but also more vulnerable to the effects of poverty. The positive benefits of development do not reach women in equal measures to men, and the proportion of women among the poor is constantly increasing.
Ingrid Bragee
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Much effort, little impact: the politics of public microcredit programs in Malawi
Cogent Social SciencesThis 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 +2 more
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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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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 +4 more
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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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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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Journal of Economic Issues (junio 2015) Women and Financialization: Microcredit, Institutional Investors, and MFIs [PDF]
, 2015 My aim in this paper is to show the way in which microfinance acquires the face of women. While microfinance institutions (MFIs) act under the flag of “serving the common good,” there are still the interests of institutional investors behind them, who ...
Girón, Alicia
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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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, 2009 The importance of gender-equality and of women’s work in relation to the environment are considered to be crucial questions for development in ‘third world’ rural societies.
Arora-Jonsson, Seema
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