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Microfinance and its discontents : women in debt in Bangladesh /

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 euphori...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Karim, Lamia (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2011.
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Table des matières:
  • Neoliberalism, microfinance, and women's empowerment
  • The structural transformation of the NGO sphere
  • The research terrain
  • The everyday mediations of microfinance
  • The social life of debt
  • NGOs, clergy, and contested "democracy"
  • Power/knowledge in microfinance
  • From disciplined subjects to political agents?