When Mohammed Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006, he drew global attention to the potential benefits of lending small amounts of money to impoverished women in cooperative groups. His work in Bangladesh, in cooperation with the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC), had lowered...

"In Making Women Pay, Smitha Radhakrishnan explores India's microfinance industry, which in the last two decades has come to saturate the everyday lives of women in the name of state-led efforts to promote financial inclusion and women's empowerment. Despite this favorable language, she argues,...

When Mohammed Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006, he drew global attention to the potential benefits of lending small amounts of money to impoverished women in cooperative groups. His work in Bangladesh, in cooperation with the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC), had lowered...