Microfinance and Its Discontents: Women in Debt in Bangladesh

by Lamia Karim

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A feminist critique of the much-lauded microcredit process 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 euphoria over the benefits of microfinance, Lamia Karim offers a timely and sobering...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0816670951

ISBN13:9780816670956

Release Date:March 2011

Publisher:University of Minnesota Press

Length:296 Pages

Weight:0.85 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 5.4" x 8.4"

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Business Business & Investing Cultural Non-Governmental Organizations Political Science Politics & Government Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences

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