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Micro-finance and women's empowerment: A lesson from India

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posted on 2023-06-07, 21:07 authored by Fiona Leach, Shashikala Sitaram
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  • Published

Journal

Development in Practice

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0961-4524

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Issue

5

Volume

12

Page range

575-588

Pages

14.0

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The article is based on a DFID funded research study into training for women's micro-enterprises carried out in five countries, for which the faculty member was the principal investigator. The article is co-authored with an Indian researcher and is published in a journal aimed at a professional rather than academic readership. It draws lessons from an NGO project intended to empower low caste women working in the silk reeling industry in India through micro-finance. Its contribution lies in the highlighting of the naivety of NGOs seeking to operate in global markets (in this case the silk industry) and the disastrous impact that this can have on poor people already living on the edge of survival. It also questioned the orthodoxy of supporting group-based economic enterprises for women and the exclusion of male relatives from projects intended to benefit women.

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2012-02-06

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