Introduction: win-win capitalism -- Approaches to corporate-led empowerment in the Global South -- Feminist research in the wake of corporate power -- Branding poverty: the values of women's empowerment -- "Open happiness": empowering emotions -- The entrepreneurialization of feminized labor --...

Originally conceived as small-scale loans allowing impoverished women to invest in informal sector economic opportunities, microfinance programs have grown rapidly across the globe over the past two decades to become the most common development tool used to empower women in low- and...

Introduction : discourse of microcredit : framing and disciplining the subjects of development / Jude L. Fernando -- The global political economy of microfinance and poverty reduction : locating local "livelihoods" in political analysis / Heloise Weber -- Disciplining the developmental subject :...