Microfinance and its discontents : women in debt in Bangladesh / Lamia Karim.

In 2006 the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh won the Nobel Peace Prize for its innovative microfinancing operations. This path-breaking study of gender, grassroots globalization, and neoliberalism in Bangladesh looks critically at the Grameen Bank and three of the leading NGOs in the country. Amid euphori...

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Main Author: Karim, Lamia (Author)
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Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2011.
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