Microfinance and Its Discontents: Women in Debt in Bangladesh

By Lamia Karim. 2011

447 citations recorded by the source corpus.

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/a18a2794442f5113607f49cd3a777cda2508847a

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

Citations in the corpus

Poverty Capital: Microfinance and the Making of Development (2010, background): “On the other side are groups like the Grameen Bank and the Microcredit Summit Campaign, or the Bangladesh consensus.”
Focus on Women in Microfinance Institutions (2013, background): “Karim (2011) speaks of an ‘economy of shame’, which draws on peer surveillance, denouncement and humiliation as enforcement mechanisms and to which women are much more receptive.”
Empowering Women Through Financial Inclusion: A Study of Urban Slum (2019, background): “Several studies (i.e., Fraser, 2011; Karim, 2011; Roodman and Qureshi, 2006) have raised questionable record on financial inclusion and women empowerment.”
Juggling with Debt, Social Ties, and Values (2014, background): “See, e.g., Elyachar (2005), Fernando (2006), Karim (2011), and Rankin (2002). celebrated as a powerful tool for the eradication of poverty and informal debt, the promotion of popular capitalism, and women’s empowerment through collective action.3 In the case studied here, if women adhere to…”
Life in a shrimp zone: aqua- and other cultures of Bangladesh's coastal landscape (2014, background): “11For more on microcredit indebtedness in contemporary Bangladesh, see Cons and Paprocki (2010) and Karim (2011).”
Microfinance and the business of poverty reduction: Critical perspectives from rural Bangladesh (2017, background): “, 2005; Morris and Barnes, 2005) and some even found a negative impact (Bateman, 2010; Dichter and Harper, 2007; Karim, 2011; Roodman, 2011).”
Is fin-tech the new panacea for poverty alleviation and local development? Contesting Suri and Jack’s M-Pesa findings published in Science (2019, unknown): “…mentioned previously, which turned out not to describe the real situation in Bangladesh (for a more realistic view of the situation there, see Karim 2011; Maîtrot 2019; Paprocki 2016) any more than their conclusions as to the power of microcredit per se represented the general global…”