The Political Economy of Microfinance: Financializing Poverty
Philip Mader
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 millions of people and generating substantial revenues. Although systemic flaws have become obvious, most strikingly with the 2010 Indian crisis that was marked by overindebtedness, suicides and violence, the industry's expansion continues unabated. As Philip Mader argues, microfinance heralds less the end of poverty than new, more financialized forms of poverty. While microfinance promises to empower, it generates discipline and extracts substantial resources from the poor, producing new crises and new forms of dispossession.
年:
2015
出版商:
Palgrave Macmillan
語言:
english
頁數:
304
ISBN 10:
1137364203
ISBN 13:
9781137364203
系列:
Studies in the Political Economy of Public Policy
文件:
PDF, 1.46 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2015
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