Microcredit and Women's Empowerment: A Case Study of Bangladesh

By Aminul Faraizi, Taskinur Rahman, Jim McAllister

Book Overview

Using the case study of Bangladesh and based on a long term participatory observation method, this book investigates the claims of the success of microcredit, as well as the critiques of it in the context of women's empowerment. It confronts the distinction between women's increasing wealth as a consequence of the success of microcredit programmes and their apparent not-commensurate empowerment, and looks at two organisations operating in two localities in rural Bangladesh in order to discover how these concepts are often confused.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138844128
• ISBN13: 9781138844124
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"