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

• Autore: Loubere Nicholas
• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (285)
• Soggetto topico: China; Microeconomics
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Soggetto non controllato: Actor-oriented Approach; China; Financial Inclusion; Livelihoods; Marginalisation; Microcredit; Microfinance; Relational Approach; Rural Development
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Development on Loan
• ISBN: 9789048544271
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910348215403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Transforming Asia Ser.