Financializing poverty : labor and risk in Indian microfinance /
In India, a growing number of for-profit microfinance institutions (MFIs) have emerged, promising social and economic empowerment while, in reality, they have mainly succeeded at enfolding the poor into the vast circuits of global finance. This book ethnographically examines how the emergence of MFI...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Stanford, California :
Stanford University Press,
2018
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| Series: | South Asia in motion.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : enfolding the poor
- Entrepreneurship and work at the "bottom of the pyramid"
- From social banking to financial inclusion
- The reluctant moneylender
- The domestication of microfinance
- Financial risk and the moral economy of credit
- Insured death, precarious life.
