LEADER 06127nam 2200361 450 001 9910725994003321 005 20230701171125.0 035 $a(CKB)5470000002601647 035 $a(NjHacI)995470000002601647 035 $a(EXLCZ)995470000002601647 100 $a20230701d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aMicrofinance challenges $eempowerment or disempowerment of the poor? /$fIsabelle Gue?rin, Jane Palier 210 1$aPondicherry :$cInstitut Franc?ais de Pondiche?ry,$d2005. 215 $a1 online resource (xii, 384 pages) 327 $aEngendering microfinance / Meera Sundararajan -- Relevance of microfinance and empowerment in tribal areas / M. Thanuja -- Structural issues in empowerment under microfinance / Sreejata Banerjee and S.J.S. Swamidoss -- Empowerment and microfinance / Wayan Suadnya ... [et al.] -- Historical analysis of empowerment and its present understanding in the context of microfinance / Sunita Rabindranathan -- Micro enterprises of self help groups and state policies under a neo-liberal regime / S. Mohanakumar and Suja Susan George -- Can microfinance empower women? / Joy Deshmukh-Ranadive -- Situating microcredit in India / K. Kalpana -- Women's survival strategies and experiences with support services as home-based micro-entrepreneurs in Metro Manila / Christine Bonnin -- Microfinance, informal finance and empowerment of the poor / R. Sunil -- Emerging women micro-entrepreneurs in Bangladesh / Parveen Mahmud -- Microfinance technology and linkages with non-financial services / Arun Raste -- Microfinance, rural livelihoods and women's empowerment / Helzi Noponen -- Microfinance and women's empowerment / Meenal Patole and Frances Sinha -- Self-help groups and the empowerment of women / Binitha V. Thampi -- Microfinance and self-help groups / Usha Oommen and A. Meenakshisundararajan -- Findings from the mid-term impact assessment study of the CASHE programme in Orissa, carreid out by SAMPARK , Bangalore / Prabhat Labh -- Microfinance and empowerment / P. A. Lakshmi Prasanna -- SHGs and their place and role in civil society / Prakash Louis -- Social externalities of women's empowerment through microfinance / M. Indira -- Empowerment of SHG/DWCRA women through microfinance / D. Vasudeva Rao -- Microcredit programmes, poverty alleviation and empowerment of women / K.R. Lakshmi Devi -- From passive participation to effective leadership / Uday Kumar. 330 $aLa relation de causalite? entre microfinance et empowerment n'est ni line?aire, ni univoque et encore moins syste?matique. Cet ouvrage propose d'alimenter le de?bat, d'une part en combinant re?flexions the?oriques et e?tudes de cas, d'autre part en confrontant praticiens et chercheurs de diverses disciplines. Une premie?re partie propose de de?finir le concept d'empowerment. Une seconde partie insiste sur le ro?le central de l'environnement. Le lien entre microfinance et empowerment est d'autant plus subtil, parfois impre?visible, que les projets de microfinance prennent place dans un contexte e?conomique, social, culturel et politique qui est lui-me?me complexe, e?volutif et qui conditionne partiellement les re?sultats obtenus. Une troisie?me partie porte sur la question cruciale de l'e?valuation. Microfinance is often presented, not only as an efficient tool to fight against poverty, but also as a means of promoting the empowerment of the most marginalized sections of the population, especially women. However, reality has shown that the causal relation between microfinance and empowerment is neither linear, nor unequivocal and that it is even less systematic. This book is an attempt to nourish the debate, on the one hand, by combining theoretical reflections and case studies, and on the other hand, by engaging practitioners and researchers from various backgrounds (mainly economists, sociologists and anthropologists). First of all, we consider the question of definitions. Even if everyone agrees that the concept of 'empowerment' refers to notions of choice, of power and of change, the diversity of definitions suggested here confirms that under no circumstances does a universal conception of it exist. The second part insists on the central role of the environment. The link between microfinance and empowerment is all the more subtle, and sometimes unforeseeable, as microfinance projects take place within an economic, socio-cultural and political context that is itself complex, evolutionary and which partially conditions the results obtained. Microfinance projects - as any development projects - should therefore be understood and analyzed as endogenous processes. Finally, a third part relates to the crucial question of evaluation. Here still, the diversity of the results is striking: certain experiments are very positive while elsewhere the results are very mixed and sometimes even worrying. One does not speak any more of empowerment, but of "disempowerment" or even "overempowerment". This heterogeneity of results is due as much to the diversity of the projects, their methods of action, the target population, and the context of intervention as to the methodologies of evaluation. The conclusion leads us to go beyond a certain number of contradictions evoked throughout the book while proposing to think of empowerment using the French concept of "solidarity-based economy". 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