Financializing poverty : labor and risk in Indian microfinance /

In India, a growing number of for-profit microfinance institutions (MFIs) have emerged, promising social and economic empowerment while, in reality, they have mainly succeeded at enfolding the poor into the vast circuits of global finance. This book ethnographically examines how the emergence of MFI...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Kar, Sohini (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2018]
Collection:South Asia in motion.
Sujets:
Microfinance > India > Kolkata.
Microfinance > Social aspects > India > Kolkata.
Poverty > India > Kolkata.
Poor women > India > Kolkata.
Pauvreté > Inde > Kolkata.
Femmes pauvres > Inde > Kolkata.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Finance.
Microfinance
Poor women
Poverty
India > Kolkata
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction : enfolding the poor
  • Entrepreneurship and work at the "bottom of the pyramid"
  • From social banking to financial inclusion
  • The reluctant moneylender
  • The domestication of microfinance
  • Financial risk and the moral economy of credit
  • Insured death, precarious life.

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