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Women, Microfinance and the State in Neo-liberal India

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Women, Microfinance and the State in Neo-liberal India book

Women, Microfinance and the State in Neo-liberal India

DOI link for Women, Microfinance and the State in Neo-liberal India

Women, Microfinance and the State in Neo-liberal India book

ByK. Kalpana
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2016
eBook Published 7 July 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge India
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315543321
Pages 258 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315543321
SubjectsArea Studies, Economics, Finance, Business & Industry, Social Sciences
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Kalpana, K. (2017). Women, Microfinance and the State in Neo-liberal India. London: Routledge India, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315543321

This book discusses women-oriented microfinance initiatives in India and their articulation vis-à-vis state developmentalism and contemporary neo-liberal capitalism. It examines how these initiatives encourage economically disadvantaged rural women to make claims upon state-provided microcredit and connect with multiple state institutions and agencies, thereby reshaping their gendered identities. The author shows how Self-Help Group (SHG)-based microfinance institutions mobilise agency and create channels of empowerment for women as well as make them responsible for alleviating poverty for themselves and their families. The book also brings out the importance of factoring in women’s dissenting voices when they negotiate developmental projects at the grassroots level.

Rich in empirical data, this volume will be useful to scholars and researchers of development studies, gender studies, economics, especially microeconomics, politics, public policy and governance.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |33 pages

Introduction. The paradox of SHG-banking: microfinance and neo-liberal governmentalities

chapter 1|29 pages

The ascendance of SHG-based microfinance: ‘win–win’ in India

chapter 2|19 pages

Becoming micro-banks: generating capital, building discipline

chapter 3|17 pages

Evaluating the self: distributing resources, containing risks

chapter 4|20 pages

Managing micro-banks: how much autonomy? Whose responsibility?

chapter 5|23 pages

The ‘imperfect translation’ of SHG-banking: autonomised bankers, ‘vulnerable’ women

chapter 6|25 pages

Female entrepreneurship and the SGSY: subverting policy, surviving poverty

chapter 7|18 pages

Learning about the state: a pedagogic reversal

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