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Record Nr.

UNISA996333143903316

Autore

Loubere Nicholas

Titolo

Development on Loan : Microcredit and Marginalisation in Rural China / / Nicholas Loubere

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

9789048544271

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (285 pages)

Collana

Transforming Asia.

Disciplina

332.00951

Soggetti

Microeconomics

China

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Language, Currency Units, and Referencing -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Rural Financial Services in China -- 3. Making Microcredit -- 4. Variation in Microcredit Implementation -- 5. Microcredit as Modernisation and De-marginalisation -- 6. Microcredit, Precarious Livelihoods, and Undercurrents of Marginalisation -- 7. Conclusion -- Acronyms -- Glossary of Chinese Terms -- Interviews -- Bibliography

Sommario/riassunto

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.