02142cam a22003018a 450000100070000000500170000700800410002403500130006501000170007802000290009502000250012404000180014904200080016704300120017505000260018708200080021310000270022124501250024826000440037330000320041744000450044952011630049450400660165765000300172365000440175370000210179770000220181810769120230410115654.0100604s2011    enka     b    001 0 eng    a16266700  a  2010022064  a9780415584906 (hardback)  a9780203837108 (ebk.)  aDLCcDLCdDLC  apcc  aa-bg---14aHG 178.33bF219m 201100a3321 aFaraizi, Aminul Haque.10aMicrocredit and women's empowerment :ba case study of Bangladesh /cAminul Faraizi, Taskinur Rahman and Jim McAllister.  aLondon ;aNew York :bRoutledge,c2011.  ax, 144 p. :bill. ;c24 cm. 0aRoutledge Contemporary South Asia series  a"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. The book goes on to establish that the success stories of the microcredit programme are blown out of proportion, and that the dynamics of collective responsibility for repayment of loans by a group of women borrowers - usually seen to be a tool for success of microcredit - is in fact no less repressive than traditional debt collectors. It is a worthwhile contribution to development debates, challenging adherents to more closely specify those conditions under which microcredit does indeed have validity, as well as providing useful research for South Asian Studies and Development Studies"--cProvided by publisher.  aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [131]-138) and index. 0aMicrofinancezBangladesh. 0aWomenzBangladeshxEconomic conditions.1 aMcAllister, Jim.1 aRahman, Taskinur.