Micro-Credit, Poverty and Empowerment

Linking the Triad
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-7619-3366-3
Verlag: SAGE Publications

Buch, Englisch, 372 Seiten, Gewicht: 423 g

Two persistent problems that affect a significant portion of Indian women are poverty and violation of their human rights. In recent years, micro-credit has come to be viewed as a vital tool to ameliorate both conditions. However, there are few studies in the Indian context which test the validity of the assumption that there is a linear link between micro-credit, poverty reduction and women`s empowerment. This important and thought provoking volume brings together revealing case studies of micro-credit interventions made by six non-governmental and quasi-governmental bodies in five states of peninsular India, several of which have been supported by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

The six case studies are diverse in terms of their socio-economic and geo-political contexts: the nature and ideological orientation of the intermediary organizations; the groups targeted by the projects (exclusively women or men and women); and the life-spans of the projects. Despite their differences, all the studies offer useful lessons on the institutional structures and processes that do or do not facilitate women`s empowerment and poverty reduction, while exploring the potential and limitations of micro-credit to achieve these twin goals.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Burra, Neera

Deshmukh-Ranadive, Joy

Murthy, Ranjani K

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen Bankwirtschaft
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftswachstum
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Entwicklungsstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Entwicklungspolitik, Nord-Süd Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword - Maxine Olson
Foreword - ICICI Bank

Preface
Introduction: Linking the Triad - Joy Deshmukh-Ranadive and Ranjani K Murthy

Towards Women's Empowerment and Poverty Reduction: Lessons from the Andhra Pradesh South Asia Poverty Alleviation Programme - Ranjani K Murthy, K Raju and Amitha Kamath with Research Team
Micro-Credit and Women's Empowerment: A Case Study of SHARE Micro-Finance Limited - Anuradha Rajivan
Social Mobilization and Micro-Credit for Women's Empowerment: A Study of the DHAN Foundation - Veena Padia
Awareness, Access, Agency: Experiences of Swayam Shikshan Prayog in Micro-Finance and Women`s Empowerment - Soma Kishore Parthasarathy
Micro-Credit and Women`s Empowerment: The Lokadrusti Case - Shashi Rajagopalan
Social Mobilization and Micro-Finance for Women's Empowerment-Lessons from the ASA Trust - Kalpana Sankar
Conclusion: Analysing the Link - Ranjani K Murthy and Joy Deshmukh-Ranadive
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Burra, Neera
Neera Burra is Assistant Resident Representative and Senior Social Development Adviser at the Sustainable Energy and Environment Division (SEED) of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), India Office, New Delhi. A sociologist by training, she obtained her Ph.D. from the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. She has previously been with the International Labour Organization (ILO) as National Expert in its women’s programme (1988–93) and with the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) as Programme Manager for South Asia (1993–95). Dr Burra has been closely involved with NGOs and CBOs working on micro-credit and women’s empowerment for the last 15 years. She has also worked extensively on the issues of child labour and education and was recently awarded a post-doctoral fellowship by the Globalization and Human Rights Programmes of the University of Chicago to study the impact of globalization on child labour.

Dr Burra’s current interests are in natural resource management for poverty eradication with a strong thrust on micro-credit, women’s empowerment and poverty eradication. She has published extensively in the field of child labour, and has also written on watershed development, women’s empowerment and micro-credit.

Deshmukh-Ranadive, Joy
Joy Deshmukh-Ranadive is Director, Indian School of Microfinance for Women, Ahmedabad. She has 20 years of experience in the field of Gender and Development and has worked with premier research organisations like Research Centre for Women’s Studies, Mumbai, Centre for Women’s Development Studies, New Delhi and International Center for Research on Women, New Delhi. She has several publications to her credit in the areas of structural adjustment; microfinance; women’s empowerment; violence against women; women and ageing; and economic, social and cultural human rights. She has particularly focused on conceptualising power and empowerment, linking together the micro, meso and macro into an analytical framework. She has also taught Economics at the postgraduate level at the Department of Economics, University of Mumbai and holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Mumbai (formerly Bombay). Prior to joining the Indian School of Microfinance for Women, Joy Deshmukh-Ranadive was Country Director of the India office of the International Center for Research on Women, New Delhi.

Murthy, Ranjani K
Ranjani K Murthy is an independent researcher based in Chennai whose areas of interest have been gender, poverty and health for the past two decades. Through her work with MYRADA (1984–88) and with Initiatives: Women in Development (IWID, 1991–94), as well as by conducting independent research, she has gathered grassroots knowledge along with experience in policy analysis, capacity building and impact assessment. She has carried out policy and impact assessment studies with a focus on gender and poverty in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Vietnam, Moldova and Sudan (for UN organizations and for national and international bodies which fund NGOs), and has prepared a global literature review on reproductive health service accountability within health sector reforms (for the former Women’s Health Project, South Africa). Ms Ranjani Murthy was also a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex (1994). Her published books include Indian NGOs and their Capacity Building in the 1990s (1997, co-author); Building Women’s Capacities: Experiences in Gender Transformation (Sage, 2001, editor); and Denial and Distress: Gender, Poverty and Human Rights in Asia (2003, co-author).