Radhakrishnan Making Women Pay

Microfinance in Urban India
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2216-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 269 Seiten

Smitha Radhakrishnan explores India's microfinance industry, showing that despite the rhetoric about improving the everyday lives of women borrowers, the practice is a commercial industry that seeks to extract the maximum value from its customers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Radhakrishnan, Smitha

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Abbreviations and Acronyms ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
1. The Invisible State of Gender and Credit 25
2. Men and Women of the MFI 47
3. Making Women Creditworthy 70
4. Social Work 100
5. Empowerment, Declined 124
6. Distortions of Distance 148
7. Impact Revisited 177
Conclusion 197
Methodological Appendix 211
Notes 219
Bibliography 233
Index 245

Über Autor(innen)

Smitha Radhakrishnan is Professor of Sociology and Luella LaMer Slaner Professor of Women's Studies at Wellesley College and author of Appropriately Indian: Gender and Culture in a New Transnational Class, also published by Duke University Press.