Credit to Capabilities

by Paromita Sanyal

Book Overview

Credit to Capabilities focuses on the controversial topic of microcredit's impact on women's empowerment and, especially, on the neglected question of how microcredit transforms women's agency. Based on interviews with hundreds of economically and socially vulnerable women from peasant households, this book highlights the role of the associational mechanism - forming women into groups that are embedded in a vast network and providing the opportunity...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107434475
• ISBN13: 9781107434479
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"