This book analyses what microfinance money means to women; and in doing so, it focuses on the perspectives of … individual women and of women-only groups. It explores women's own money management strategies, group dynamics and learning …, and those of women who are members of self-help groups …

Bank and three of the leading NGOs in the country. Amid euphoria over the benefits of microfinance, Lamia Karim offers a … timely and sobering perspective on the practical, and possibly detrimental, realities for poor women inducted into … microfinance operations. In a series of ethnographic cases, Karim shows how NGOs use social codes of honor and shame to shape the …

development tool used to empower women in low- and middle-income countries. Women and Microfinance in the Global South … between microfinance and women's empowerment, questioning how microfinance facilitates the economic and socio …-political empowerment of women. The theoretical framework assesses both positive and negative outcomes of microfinance at the grassroots …