Micro-Credit, Empowerment, and Agency: Re-Evaluating the Discourse

@article{Parmar2003MicroCreditEA,
  title={Micro-Credit, Empowerment, and Agency: Re-Evaluating the Discourse},
  author={Aradhana Parmar},
  journal={Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue canadienne d'{\'e}tudes du d{\'e}veloppement},
  year={2003},
  volume={24},
  pages={461 - 476}
}
  • A. Parmar
  • Published 1 January 2003
  • Sociology
  • Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue canadienne d'études du développement
ABSTRACT The discussion around gender and development has come to focus on the “empowerment” of women, and has become quite central to development discourse. The “empowerment” of women also increasingly appears among the stated objectives of NGOs and other development agencies, to the extent that efforts to “empower women” have come to be an expected component of any credible development project or strategy. By critically assessing the discourse of empowerment as it pertains to the micro-credit… 
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