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Does microcredit "empower"?
reflections on the Grameen Bank debate
pp. 27-41
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.
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(2008) Human Studies 31 (1).
Pages: 27-41
DOI: 10.1007/s10746-007-9076-3
Full citation:
Selinger Evan (2008) „Does microcredit "empower"?: reflections on the Grameen Bank debate“. Human Studies 31 (1), 27–41.