1. The empowerment project -- 2. Microcredit as an empowerment strategy -- 3. Unpacking microcredit discourses -- 4. Implanting microcredit : BRAC and Grameen Bank officers -- 5. Envisioning microcredit -- 6. The false promise: microcredit and empowering poor women in rural Bangladesh.

One may observe a fundamental disjuncture that occurred in the operation of power by the West in governing the Third World population since the Second World War. Pre-war management was based on exercise of sovereign power by the former colonial masters; post-colonial or contemporary power is...