Microfinance challenges: empowerment or disempowerment of the poor?

• Main Author: Isabelle Guérin (auth)
• Other Authors: Jane Palier (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Institut Français de Pondichéry 2005
• Subjects: empowerment; microfinance; poverty
• Online Access: 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...