Development on loan: Microcredit and marginalisation in rural China

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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.

Object Details

• ISBN: 978-90-485-4427-1
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Transforming Asia

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Loubere, Nicholas
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Amsterdam University Press
• (where): Amsterdam
• (when): 2019

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.5117/9789463722513
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/233541
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET