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.
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.
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.
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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
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
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