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Guérin Isabelle, Kumar S. (2017). Market, freedom and the illusions of microcredit : patronage, caste, clas and patriarchy in rural South India [plus online appendix]. In : Garikipati S. (ed.). Microfinance and gender : issues, challenges and the road ahead. Journal of Development Studies, 53 (5), p. 741-754 + 8 p. d'annexes n.p. ISSN 0022-0388.

Titre du document
Market, freedom and the illusions of microcredit : patronage, caste, clas and patriarchy in rural South India [plus online appendix]
Année de publication
2017
Type de document
Article référencé dans le Web of Science WOS:000396821800007
Auteurs
Guérin Isabelle, Kumar S.
In
Garikipati S. (ed.), Microfinance and gender : issues, challenges and the road ahead
Source
Journal of Development Studies, 2017, 53 (5), p. 741-754 + 8 p. d'annexes n.p. ISSN 0022-0388
As a market tool, microcredit is expected to promote individual freedom, for women in particular. By drawing on a southern Indian case, this paper argues that microcredit is in fact shaped by the power structures it is supposed to eradicate. Even if they are partly reshaped, local structures of power remain unavoidable to protect populations (something that microcredit fails to do) but also to build the microcredit market and ensure its legitimacy, for donors, local political arenas and local populations. Far beyond microcredit, our findings question the uneasy relationships between markets and individual freedoms.
Plan de classement
Développement économique / Aménagement du territoire [095] ; Economie et sociologie rurale [098] ; Société, développement social [106]
Localisation
Fonds IRD [F B010068989]
Identifiant IRD
fdi:010068989
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