Microfinance challenges: empowerment or disempowerment of the poor?

• Autore principale: Isabelle Guérin (auth)
• Altri autori: Jane Palier (auth)
• Natura: Elettronico Capitolo di libro
• Lingua: inglese
• Pubblicazione: Institut Français de Pondichéry 2005
• Soggetti: empowerment; microfinance; poverty
• Accesso 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...