Smitha Radhakrishnan

Making Women Pay

Microfinance in Urban India

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 372g
• ISBN-13: 9781478014874
• ISBN-10: 1478014873
• Artikelnr.: 60945640

Autorenporträt

Smitha Radhakrishnan

Inhaltsangabe

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