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Development on loan: Microcredit and marginalisation in rural China

Key to China's plans to promote rural development is the de-marginalisation of the countryside through the incorporation of rural areas into the urban-based market-oriented financial system. For this reason, Chinese development planners have turned to microcredit - i.e. the provision of small-scale loans to 'financially excluded' rural households - as a means of increasing 'financial consciousness' and facilitating rural de-marginalisation. Drawing on in-depth fieldwork in rural China, this book examines the formulation, implementation and outcomes of government-run microcredit programmes in China-illuminating the diverse roles that microcredit plays in local processes of socioeconomic development and the livelihoods of local actors. It details how microcredit facilitates de-marginalisation for some, while simultaneously exacerbating the marginalisation of others; and exposes the ways in which microcredit and other top-down development strategies reflect and reinforce the contradictions and paradoxes implicit in rural China's contemporary development landscape.

ISBN
978-90-485-4427-1
Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Transforming Asia

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Loubere, Nicholas
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Amsterdam University Press
(wo)
Amsterdam
(wann)
2019

DOI
doi:10.5117/9789463722513
Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Buch

Beteiligte

  • Loubere, Nicholas
  • Amsterdam University Press

Entstanden

  • 2019

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