Poverty Capital: Microfinance and the Making of Development

By A. Roy. 2010

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Citations in the corpus

• The Political Economy of “Transnational Business Feminism” (2015, background): “This term is meant to refer to the “ways in which development operates through women-oriented policies that in turn serve to maintain traditional gender roles of social reproduction and create a third shift of voluntary, unpaid labour for women” (Roy 2010, 70; see also Chant 2006).”
• Development geography II (2018, background): “Across the world, financial capital has been ‘democratized’ (Roy, 2010).”
• Remaking Africa’s Informal Economies: Youth, Entrepreneurship and the Promise of Inclusion at the Bottom of the Pyramid (2016, background): “Punctuality is taken as a marker of a keen eye, or strong grip, on the future (Bourdieu, 2000, p. 28), drawing a symbolic and material ‘boundary’ between an aimless past and an abundant future (Rose, 1999).”
• High Noon for Microfinance Impact Evaluations: Re-investigating the Evidence from Bangladesh (2012, background): “However, despite the huge expansion and popularity of microfinance, it has recently been argued that there is little convincing evidence that microfinance programmes have positive impacts (Armendáriz de Aghion and Morduch, 2005, 2010; Goldberg, 2005; Roy, 2010; Bateman, 2010; Stewart et al., 2010; D”
• Mobile Money: Communication, Consumption and Change in the Payments Space (2012, methodology): “Each of these strategies could easily serve as an example of Prahalad’s Bottom of the Pyramid approach: leveraging poor people’s networks to generate new revenue streams while at the same time alleviating poverty by expanding access to financial services (Elyachar, 2010; Roy, 2010).”
• Women, girls and world poverty: empowerment, equality or essentialism? (2016, background): “…eyes of development constructed the Third World woman primarily as the victim, now she has become an icon of indefatigable efficiency and altruism’ (Roy, 2010:69) Since the ‘feminisation of poverty’ came to enjoy the arguably unwarranted status of global orthodoxy at the Fourth Women’s World…”
• The digital revolution in financial inclusion: international development in the fintech era (2017, methodology): “Roy (2010), for example, describes the post-crisis efforts of the Moody’s Research Lab, a ‘research incubator’ recently established within Moody’s Corporation and providing credit ratings for debt instruments and securities.”
• Globalisation, accounting and developing countries (2017, background): “Roy (2010) delineates a ‘Washington’ – i.e. WB and IMF – approach to microfinance that renders poverty alleviation an economic problem caused by the poor’s lack of access to capital for entrepreneurial ventures, best rendered by commercial institutions.”
• The Impact of Microfinance in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review of the Evidence (2012, background): “Microfinance is increasingly questioned, not only for its lack of proven poverty reduction and development outcomes, but also on ideological terms — for example, see Bateman (2010, 2011), Dichter (2007), Fernando (2006), and Roy (2010).”
• Systematic Review. What is the evidence of the impact of microfinance on the well-being of poor people? (2011, background): “There are several books reviewing microfinance (Hulme and Mosley 1996, Khandker 1998, Ledgerwood 1999, Robinson 2001, Johnson and Rogaly 1997, Armendáriz de Aghion and Morduch 2005 (A&M), Ledgerwood et al. 2006, Dichter and Harper 2007, Bateman 2010, Roy 2010).”
• Juggling with Debt, Social Ties, and Values (2014, background): “It is also estimated that 730,092 SHGs were created (Sa Dhan 2009).7 In India as elsewhere, microcredit draws part of its legitimacy from the expectation of job creation (Roy 2010; Servet 2010).”