Global financial crisis and women's micro-lending innovations in Pakistan and Malawi

Tahmina Rashid and Jonathan Makuwira

Development in Practice, 2014, vol. 24, issue 1, 39-50

Abstract: Microcredit/finance as a tool to eradicate poverty and empower women in developing countries has been a darling of developed countries. The success stories from microcredit borrowers from Bangladesh, India, and Africa, and global endorsement of microcredit programmes have largely ignored local indigenous initiatives managed by groups of women in rural and urban areas. Evidence from fieldwork in Pakistan and Malawi suggests that although systematically recorded history of such indigenous initiatives is lacking, women in these settings would attest that there exists generational knowledge about such small-scale, group-based micro-lending which can be used to enhance livelihoods in rural households.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1080/09614524.2014.867927

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