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

Object Details

• Alternative title: About Reliable Women and Financial Inclusion
• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Deutsch
• Notes: Postprint ; begutachtet (peer reviewed) ; In: PERIPHERIE - Politik, Ökonomie, Kultur ; 35 (2015) 3 ; 469-490

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Mannheim
• (when): 2015
• Creator: Wichterich, Christa

Further information

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