The political economy of microfinance : financialising poverty

The political economy of microfinance : financialising poverty /

This book helps to understand the enigmatic microfinance sector by tracing its evolution and asking how it works as a financial system. Our present capitalism is a financialized capitalism, and microfinance is its response to poverty. Microfinance has broad-ranging effects, reaching hundreds of mill...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Mader, Philip, 1984- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
Series:Studies in the political economy of public policy.
Subjects:
Microfinance.
Poverty.
Economic policy.
poverty.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • 1. A Framework for Engaging Microfinance
  • 2. A Genealogy of Microfinance
  • 3. The Financialisation of Poverty
  • 4. Financialising Public Goods
  • 5. Mechanisms of a Microfinance Crisis
  • 6. At the Crossroads of Development and Finance
  • 7. Appendix
  • 7.1 Calculating the Surplus Extraction
  • 7.2 Projects Using Microfinance for Water and Sanitation.

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