Overview
- Explores the strategies, approaches, strengths and pitfalls of microfinance programs offered by both national and local NGOs
- Offers innovative and useful strategies that will help improve the efficiency and effectiveness of NGO operations
- Champions women taking control over their own lives, setting their own agendas, gaining skills, solving problems and developing self-reliance
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book examines the effects of policies and practices of microfinance NGOs in empowering rural women in Bangladesh. Nawaz seeks to unpack the untold narratives of women's empowerment and to fill the current knowledge gap in this area. The book goes beyond the narrow minimalist evaluation of microfinance that only focuses on women’s economic empowerment through their ability to access financial resources. Rather, it looks at whether and how microfinance empowers women in a holistic manner across the socio-cultural, psychological and political spheres of life. The author argues that microfinance reduces levels of poverty, which means that women are better able to meet their practical gender needs; however, they are not empowered unless they are also able to meet their strategic gender needs, including the transformation of gender power relations from the household to state arenas. Therefore, the book argues that in order to bring about higher levels of empowerment, microfinance programs must be combined with other services such as financial literacy, socioeconomic training, education, healthcare, social mobilization and legal support.
Microfinance and Women’s Empowerment in Bangladesh will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including Gender Studies, Development Studies, and Politics.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Faraha Nawaz is an Associate Professor in the Department of Public Administration, University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Microfinance and Women’s Empowerment in Bangladesh
Book Subtitle: Unpacking the Untold Narratives
Authors: Faraha Nawaz
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13539-3
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-13538-6Published: 12 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-13539-3Published: 01 March 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 127
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 16 illustrations in colour
Topics: Women's Studies, Development Studies, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology