How Microfinance Financializes Women

Reviewing Smitha Radhakrishnan's Making Women Pay, Jingyi Zhang elucidates the exploitative practices of the much-vaunted microfinance industry, particularly as they apply to—and exacerbate—existing tensions within communities of women in India.

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Journal
Monthly Review
Published
2024-09-01
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14452/mr-076-04-2024-08_5
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Microfinance and Financial Inclusion
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Abstract

Reviewing Smitha Radhakrishnan's Making Women Pay, Jingyi Zhang elucidates the exploitative practices of the much-vaunted microfinance industry, particularly as they apply to—and exacerbate—existing tensions within communities of women in India.

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