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 :...

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...