Microfinance challenges: empowerment or disempowerment of the poor?

• 1. autor: Isabelle Guérin (auth)
• Kolejni autorzy: Jane Palier (auth)
• Format: Elektroniczne Rozdział
• Język: angielski
• Wydane: Institut Français de Pondichéry 2005
• Hasła przedmiotowe: empowerment; microfinance; poverty
• Dostęp online: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Microfinance is often presented, not only as an efficient tool to fight against poverty, but also as a means of promoting the empowerment of the most marginalized sections of the population, especially women. However, reality has shown that the causal relation between microfinance and empowerment is...