Women and Microfinance in the Global South

Empowerment and Disempowerment Outcomes

Lynn Horton (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

258 Seiten

2017
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-41872-0 (ISBN)

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Originally conceived as small-scale loans allowing impoverished women to invest in informal sector economic opportunities, microfinance programs have grown rapidly across the globe over the past two decades to become the most common development tool used to empower women in low- and middle-income countries. Women and Microfinance in the Global South incorporates a meta-synthesis of thirty qualitative empirical cases from Asia, Africa, and Latin America to explore the links between microfinance and women's empowerment, questioning how microfinance facilitates the economic and socio-political empowerment of women. The theoretical framework assesses both positive and negative outcomes of microfinance at the grassroots level, considering how such market-based interventions intersect with patriarchal beliefs and practices, and analyses the different mechanisms through which microfinance can empower or disempower women. It will interest scholars of developmental studies and women's issues, as well as practitioners, NGOs, and policymakers.

Lynn Horton is Associate Professor of Sociology at Chapman University, California. She has worked for non-governmental organisations on issues of human rights, sustainable development, gender equality, and the environment.

1. The microfinance revolution and market pathways to empowerment; 2. Gendering and transforming microfinance; 3. Exploring women's empowerment through meta-synthesis; 4. Putting microfinance into practice; 5. Means to an end? Microfinance NGOs target women; 6. Economic outcomes of microfinance; 7. Women's individual and household empowerment; 8. Inside microfinance groups; 9: Women's collective actions and resistance; 10. Synthesizing case findings; 11. Conclusion.

Erscheinungsdatum	16.03.2018
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises; 8 Tables, black and white; 3 Line drawings, black and white
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Gewicht	510 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
ISBN-10	1-108-41872-4 / 1108418724
ISBN-13	978-1-108-41872-0 / 9781108418720
Zustand	Neuware