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Microcredit and power: examining how and why women encounter domination in Bangladesh

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Using data from a recent ethnographic research project on microcredit, power, and poverty in the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh, this article demonstrates that the relationship of women with both NGOs and male relatives is one of dependency and subordination. Gendered power relations, embedded in NGO practices and socio-cultural gender norms, influence the female borrowers to accept the domination of the fieldworkers and their male relatives. This article examines how and why NGOs create power inequalities between fieldworkers and female borrowers, why the fieldworkers dominate a group of women, and why these women continue to participate in microcredit programmes.

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  • H.M. Ashraf Ali, 2014. "Microcredit and power: examining how and why women encounter domination in Bangladesh," Development in Practice, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 24(3), pages 327-338, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cdipxx:v:24:y:2014:i:3:p:327-338
    DOI: 10.1080/09614524.2014.896877
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