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Microcredit in South Asia: Privileging women’s perceptions and voices

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  • Shahrukh Rafi Khan

    (Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts, USA)

  • Shaheen Rafi Khan

    (Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Islamabad, Pakistan)

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This paper reviews feminist critiques, both on conceptual and empirical grounds, of the contention that microcredit empowers women. It also reviews other critiques of microcredit as being pushed by a neo-liberal agenda to extend the domain of the market or as a development panacea while not really representing authentic development. It makes a case for privileging women’s perception and voice and adds to the literature that does this using a case study from Pakistan.

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  • Shahrukh Rafi Khan & Shaheen Rafi Khan, 2016. "Microcredit in South Asia: Privileging women’s perceptions and voices," Progress in Development Studies, , vol. 16(1), pages 65-80, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:prodev:v:16:y:2016:i:1:p:65-80
    DOI: 10.1177/1464993415608083
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