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Microfinance and Its Discontents: Women in Debt in Bangladesh
Lamia Karim
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Description for Microfinance and Its Discontents: Women in Debt in Bangladesh
Paperback. Num Pages: 296 pages, 22 b&w illustrations, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1FKB; JFF; JFSJ1; KFFL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 372.
In 2006 the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh won the Nobel Peace Prize for its innovative microfinancing operations. This path-breaking study of gender, grassroots globalization, and neoliberalism in Bangladesh looks critically at the Grameen Bank and three of the leading NGOs in the country. Amid euphoria over the benefits of microfinance, Lamia Karim offers a timely and sobering perspective on the practical, and possibly detrimental, realities for poor women inducted into microfinance operations.
In a series of ethnographic cases, Karim shows how NGOs use social codes of honor and shame to shape the conduct of women and to further an ... Read more
In 2006 the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh won the Nobel Peace Prize for its innovative microfinancing operations. This path-breaking study of gender, grassroots globalization, and neoliberalism in Bangladesh looks critically at the Grameen Bank and three of the leading NGOs in the country. Amid euphoria over the benefits of microfinance, Lamia Karim offers a timely and sobering perspective on the practical, and possibly detrimental, realities for poor women inducted into microfinance operations.
In a series of ethnographic cases, Karim shows how NGOs use social codes of honor and shame to shape the conduct of women and to further an ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
371g
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816670956
SKU
V9780816670956
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About Lamia Karim
Lamia Karim is associate professor of cultural anthropology at the University of Oregon, Eugene.
Reviews for Microfinance and Its Discontents: Women in Debt in Bangladesh
"It is precisely because the microcredit mantra has been so endlessly repeated, often in place of actual empirical documentation to back its claims, that Microfinance and Its Discontents is so compelling. This is an outstanding, courageous, and path-breaking piece of scholarship; one that will doubtless unsettle the microcredit establishment, and by extension, key presumptions of neoliberal research agendas." —Kamala Visweswaran, ... Read more