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  • The Micro-politics of Microcredit

    Gender and Neoliberal Development in Bangladesh

    by Mohammad Jasim Uddin ...
    Series series ASAA Women in Asia Series
    Microcredit has been seen in recent decades as having great potential for aiding development in poor developing countries, with Bangladesh being one of the countries which has pioneered microcredit and implemented it most widely. This book, based on extensive original research, explores how microcredit works in practice, and assesses its effectiveness. It discusses how microcredit, usually ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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  • The Women, Gender and Development Reader

    by Valentine Moghadam, Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Sarah White, Diana L. Wolf, Deepa Shankaran, Lourdes Beneria, Aysan Sev'er, Maria Patricia Fernandez-Kelly, Barbara Ehrenreich, Arlie Russell Hochschild, Beth Herzfeld, Aili Mari Tripp, Kalpana Wilson, Susie Jolly, Sylvia Chant, Diane Elson, Gita Sen, Betsy Hartmann, Peggy Antrobus, Elizabeth Barajas-Roman, Jennifer Fluri, Anesu Makina, Isabel Casimiro, Joy Kwesiga, Ruth Needleman, Alice Mungwa, Jean Pyle, Sonia Corra, Ayesha M. Imam, Amy Lind, Jennifer L. Fruri, Samanthi Gunawardana, Haejin Kim, Paula Voos, Gulay Toksoz, Lila Abu-Lughod, Annette Desmarais, Shirin M. Rai, Ruth Pearson ...
    The Women, Gender and Development Reader is the definitive volume of literature dedicated to women in the development process. Now in a fully revised second edition, the editors expertly present the impacts of social, political and economic change by reviewing such topical issues as migration, persistent structural discrimination, the global recession, and climate change. Approached from a ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Poverty

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Philip N. Jefferson ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    No one wants to live in poverty. Few people would want others to do so. Yet, millions of people worldwide live in poverty. According to the World Bank, over 700 million people lived on less than US $2 a day in 2013. Why is that? What has been done about it in the past? And what is being done about it now? In this Very Short Introduction Philip N. Jefferson explores how the answers to these ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Microfinance and Its Discontents

    Women in Debt in Bangladesh

    by Lamia Karim ...
    A feminist critique of the much-lauded microcredit process in BangladeshIn 2006 the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh won the Nobel Peace Prize for its innovative microfinancing operations. This path-breaking study of gender, grassroots globalization, and neoliberalism in Bangladesh looks critically at the Grameen Bank and three of the leading NGOs in the country. Amid euphoria over the benefits of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Higher Education in India

    In Search of Equality, Quality and Quantity

    Edited by Jandhyala B. G. Tilak ...
    India has a large network of around 634 universities and 33,000 colleges with 817,000 teachers spread across the length and breadth of the country.Despite its massive geographical reach, higher education in India has had its share of problems.This volume is a collection of essays which discusses these problems like inclusiveness and the impact of reservation on education, the problems of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Microfinance

    Perils and Prospects

    Edited by Jude L. Fernando ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Development Economics
    Microfinance is defined as the financial services offered to the poor for the purpose of promoting small-scale enterprises, and as such it is one of the most important topics in development studies and a burgeoning area in economics.This volume provides a much-needed historical, political and economic dimension to the current knowledge on microfinance. Collectively, the contributors chart the ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Social Income and Insecurity

    A Study in Gujarat

    by Guy Standing, Jeemol Unni, Renana Jhabvala, Uma Rani ...
    Economic liberalisation associated with globalisation is causing a pervasive growth of economic insecurity experienced all over the world. This is placing urgent demands on policymakers to rethink old policies and institutions.This book sets out a new approach to the assessment of income dynamics, based on identifying the diverse components of people’s income and entitlements. It defines ‘social ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Money and Finance After the Crisis

    Critical Thinking for Uncertain Times

    Edited by Brett Christophers, Andrew Leyshon, Geoff Mann ...
    Series series Antipode Book Series
    Money and Finance After the Crisis provides a critical multi-disciplinary perspective on the post-crisis financial world in all its complexity, dynamism and unpredictability. Contributions illuminate the diversity of ways in which money and finance continue to shape global political economy and society.A multidisciplinary collection of essays that study the geographies of money and finance that ... Read more

    $29.00 USD

  • The Universal Social Safety-Net and the Attack on World Poverty

    Pressing Need, Manageable Cost, Practical Possibilities, Favourable Spillovers

    by Anthony Clunies-Ross, Mozammel Huq ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Development Economics
    The book is concerned with strategy and tactics for directing that small slice of world income into filling the gap. This must be done country by country, on the initiative of each country’s government: with the maximum involvement of its own civil society, and with the rich world also making a contribution. To add momentum, the international community needs to adopt targets far more specific than ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • The Condition of the Working Class in Turkey

    Labour under Neoliberal Authoritarianism

    Edited by Çaatay Edgücan Şahin, Mehmet Erman Erol ...
    Decades of neoliberal authoritarianism have propelled Turkey into crisis. Regime change, economic disaster and Erdogan’s ambition to impose ‘one-man rule’ have shaken the foundations of Turkish political life, but what does this mean for workers?Moving beyond the headlines and personalities, this book uncovers the real condition of the working class in modern Turkey. Combining field research and ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fifty Years of Bangladesh

    Economy, Politics, Society and Culture

    Edited by Rounaq Jahan, Rehman Sobhan ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
    Fifty Years of Bangladesh portrays the multi-faceted dimensions of Bangladesh’s development journey, its economic and social transformation and political and cultural contestations.The book presents new empirical data supplemented with critical analysis of processes, actors and actions that have been the drivers of Bangladesh’s transformation and offers new ways of understanding Bangladesh. ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Financializing Poverty

    Labor and Risk in Indian Microfinance

    by Sohini Kar ...
    Series series South Asia in Motion
    Microfinance is the business of giving small, collateral-free loans to poor borrowers that are paid back in frequent intervals with interest. While these for-profit microfinance institutions (MFIs) promise social and economic empowerment, they have mainly succeeded at enfolding the poor—especially women—into the vast circuits of global finance. Financializing Poverty ethnographically examines how ... Read more

    $24.99 USD