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200 10$aMicrofinance and Women?s Empowerment in Bangladesh $eUnpacking the Untold Narratives /$fby Faraha Nawaz
205   $a1st ed. 2019.
210  1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Pivot,$d2019.
215   $a1 online resource (134 pages)
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327   $a1. Prologue -- 2. Microfinance: Its Globalization Story -- 3. The Paradox of Microfinance and Women?s Empowerment -- 4. Impact of microfinance on women?s economic empowerment -- 5. : From Individual to Community Empowerment -- 6. Microfinance and Women?s Socio Cultural and Political Empowerment -- 7. Lessons from New Narratives.
330   $aThis book examines the effects of policies and practices of microfinance NGOs in empowering rural women in Bangladesh. Nawaz seeks to unpack the untold narratives of women's empowerment and to fill the current knowledge gap in this area. The book goes beyond the narrow minimalist evaluation of microfinance that only focuses on women?s economic empowerment through their ability to access financial resources. Rather, it looks at whether and how microfinance empowers women in a holistic manner across the socio-cultural, psychological and political spheres of life. The author argues that microfinance reduces levels of poverty, which means that women are better able to meet their practical gender needs; however, they are not empowered unless they are also able to meet their strategic gender needs, including the transformation of gender power relations from the household to state arenas. Therefore, the book argues that in order to bring about higher levels of empowerment, microfinance programs must be combined with other services such as financial literacy, socioeconomic training, education, healthcare, social mobilization and legal support. Microfinance and Women?s Empowerment in Bangladesh will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including Gender Studies, Development Studies, and Politics.
606   $aFeminism
606   $aFeminist theory
606   $aEconomic development
606   $aSocial structure
606   $aEquality
606   $aEconomic sociology
606   $aFeminism and Feminist Theory
606   $aDevelopment Studies
606   $aSocial Structure
606   $aEconomic Sociology
615  0$aFeminism.
615  0$aFeminist theory.
615  0$aEconomic development.
615  0$aSocial structure.
615  0$aEquality.
615  0$aEconomic sociology.
615 14$aFeminism and Feminist Theory.
615 24$aDevelopment Studies.
615 24$aSocial Structure.
615 24$aEconomic Sociology.
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