Microfinance challenges: empowerment or disempowerment of the poor?

• Yazar: Isabelle Guérin (auth)
• Diğer Yazarlar: Jane Palier (auth)
• Materyal Türü: Elektronik Kitap Bölümü
• Dil: İngilizce
• Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: Institut Français de Pondichéry 2005
• Konular: empowerment; microfinance; poverty
• Online Erişim: 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...