Microcredit in South Asia: Privileging women’s perceptions and voices

Shahrukh Rafi Khan and Shaheen Rafi Khan
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Shahrukh Rafi Khan: Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts, USA
Shaheen Rafi Khan: Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Islamabad, Pakistan

Progress in Development Studies, 2016, vol. 16, issue 1, 65-80

Abstract: This paper reviews feminist critiques, both on conceptual and empirical grounds, of the contention that microcredit empowers women. It also reviews other critiques of microcredit as being pushed by a neo-liberal agenda to extend the domain of the market or as a development panacea while not really representing authentic development. It makes a case for privileging women’s perception and voice and adds to the literature that does this using a case study from Pakistan.

Keywords: Gender; microcredit; poverty alleviation; empowerment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1177/1464993415608083

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