The imposition of a global development architecture: the example of microcredit

By H. Weber. Review of International Studies, 2002

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The Microfinance Illusion (2009, unknown): “As Weber (2002) shows, MFIs that have achieved financial self-sufficiency provide working examples to developing country governments of ‘efficient’, subsidy-free, financial institutions.”
Profit Empowerment: The Microfinance Institution’s Mission Drift (2010, background): “…poverty” or the drive “to reduce the nuisance of private money lending” (Sukhdeve 2005:23).5 This dynamic part of a “global development architecture” (Weber 2002, 2004) drew on the 1 To put microfinance into perspective in the general context of development and globalization, see Servet…”
Microfinance and the Illusion of Development: From Hubris to Nemesis in Thirty Years (2012, background): “As Weber (2002) shows, MFIs that have achieved financial self-sufficiency provide working examples to developing country governments of ‘efficient’, subsidy-free, financial institutions.”
Politics of ‘Leaving No One Behind’: Contesting the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals Agenda (2017, background): “…has been that microcredit schemes have been strategically aligned with structural adjustment programmes (SAPs) because they can be used to facilitate SAPs—and especially financial sector liberalisation—while simultaneously undermining resistance to neo-liberal development (cf. Weber, 2002, 2004).”