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Politicized Microfinance

Hossein, Caroline Shenaz

2016,2018

Overview

When Grameen Bank was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006, microfinance was lauded as an important contributor to the economic development of the Global South. However, political scandals, mission-drift, and excessive commercialization have tarnished this example of responsible or inclusive financial development. Politicized Microfinance insightfully discusses exclusion while providing a path towards redemption. In this work, Caroline Shenaz Hossein explores the politics, histories and social prejudices that have shaped the legacy of microbanking in Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica and Trinidad. Writing from a feminist perspective, Hossein’s analysis is rooted in original qualitative data and offers multiple solutions that prioritize the needs of marginalized and historically oppressed people of African descent. A must read for scholars of political economy, diaspora studies, social economy, women’s studies, as well as development practitioners, Politicized Microfinance convincingly deftly argues for microfinance to return to its origins as a political tool, fighting for those living in the margins.

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press,University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing
• Subject: Blacks / Blacks -- Caribbean Area -- Economic conditions / Blacks -- Caribbean Area -- Social conditions / BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Comparative / BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General / BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Finance / General / Caraïbes (Région) -- Conditions sociales / Caraïbes (Région) -- Conditions économiques / Caribbean Area / Caribbean Area -- Economic conditions / Caribbean Area -- Social conditions / Comparative / Comparative Politics / Developing & Emerging Countries / Economic conditions / Economics / Feminist & Women's Studies / Finance / Geschlecht / Guyana / History / Informeller Finanzsektor / Karibischer Raum / Microfinance / Microfinance -- Aspect politique -- Caraïbes (Région) / Microfinance -- Aspect social -- Caraïbes (Région) / Microfinance -- Caraïbes (Région) -- Histoire / Microfinance -- Caribbean Area -- History / Microfinance -- Political aspects -- Caribbean Area / Microfinance -- Social aspects -- Caribbean Area / Mikrofinanzierung / Mittelamerika / Noirs -- Caraïbes (Région) -- Conditions sociales / Noirs -- Caraïbes (Région) -- Conditions économiques / Political aspects / POLITICAL SCIENCE / POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics / Schwarze Menschen / Social aspects / Social conditions / SOCIAL SCIENCE / SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies / SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries / Soziale Schicht / Women's Studies
• ISBN: 1442616245, 9781442616240, 1442616598, 9781442648203, 1442616601, 9781442616592, 9781442616608, 1442648201