Poverty Capital: Microfinance and the Making of Development

by Ananya Roy

Book Overview

Winner of the 2011 Paul Davidoff award

This is a book about poverty but it does not study the poor and the powerless; instead it studies those who manage poverty. It sheds light on how powerful institutions control "capital," or circuits of profit and investment, as well as "truth," or authoritative knowledge about poverty. Such dominant practices are challenged by alternative paradigms of development, and the book details...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415876737
• ISBN13: 9780415876735
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"