Governing development: neoliberalism, microcredit, and rational economic woman

By K. Rankin. 2001

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Subfields: Business and International Management, Economics and Econometrics, Finance

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Politics of ‘Leaving No One Behind’: Contesting the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals Agenda (2017, background): “However, microfinance (and microcredit) schemes are a highly contested approach to poverty reduction (cf. for early critical analyses see Elyachar, 2002; Fernando, 1997; Rahman, 1999; Rankin, 2001; Weber, 2002, 2004, 2014a).”
The Political Economy of “Transnational Business Feminism” (2015, unknown): “2 See Benerı́a (1999); Rankin (2001); Griffin (2009).”
Cultural economic geography and a relational and microspace approach to trusts, rationalities, networks, and change in collaborative workplaces (2003, background): “Resolving problems of inequities wrought of power relations in informal, overlapping networks cannot simply be a matter of relying on formal bureaucratic rationalism because such organizational forms are based on a unidimensional rationality that presumes a unidimensional worker consistent with the ”
Social Capital, Microfinance, and the Politics of Development (2002, methodology): “Such antagonisms extend across households over time as they go through cycles of expansion through marriage alliances and contraction through the splitting of joint families (Rankin 2001b).”
Remaking Africa’s Informal Economies: Youth, Entrepreneurship and the Promise of Inclusion at the Bottom of the Pyramid (2016, background): “This ‘letting go’ and the separations it entails are a constitutive feature of BoP entrepreneurship, as success hinges on bracketing off the ‘economically active’ from the underproductive poor (Rankin, 2001; Roy, 2010, p. 99).”
Social efficiency in microfinance institutions (2009, background): “major feature of donor strategies to alleviate poverty, and funding is likely to further increase into the next century (Rankin, 2001).”
Dynamics of Lending-Based Prosocial Crowdfunding: Using a Social Responsibility Lens (2018, background): “Micro-lending of this nature has been proposed as a way to stimulate economic development in poor areas of the world (Armendáriz and Morduch 2010; Bardy et al. 2012; Hollis and Sweetman 1998; Rankin 2001).”