Mikrokredite, Rendite und Geschlecht: von zuverlässigen armen Frauen und finanzieller Inklusion

Abstract: Founded on a discourse which assumes a feminized high repayment morale, the article discusses microcredits as a gendered instrument for the inclusion of poor women in India into the financial market. Microfinancing is analysed at the intersection of four power regimes: the international financial market, development policies, nation-states and their social policies, and reproduction and production regimes at the local and household levels. Cross-cutting these power regimes, are the hierarchical social relations of class, caste, race, gender and the post-colonial North-South divide. The expansion of microcredit lending in India was legitimised by development aid organisations as a means to proverty reduction and women's empowerment. However, not only do microcredits create cycles of debt, they restructure the local economy and reproduction and are implicated in a neoliberal shift of social responsibilities from the nation-state to the poor. Furthermore, as a result of the commercial

Weitere Titel
About Reliable Women and Financial Inclusion
Standort
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Umfang
Online-Ressource
Sprache
Deutsch
Anmerkungen
Postprint
begutachtet (peer reviewed)
In: PERIPHERIE - Politik, Ökonomie, Kultur ; 35 (2015) 3 ; 469-490

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft

Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wo)
Mannheim
(wann)
2015
Urheber
Wichterich, Christa

DOI
10.3224/peripherie.v35i140.22999
URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-60012-0
Rechteinformation
Open Access; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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Beteiligte

  • Wichterich, Christa

Entstanden

  • 2015

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