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Financializing poverty : labor and risk in Indian microfinance /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kar, Sohini (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2018]
Series:South Asia in motion.
Subjects:
Microfinance > India > Kolkata.
Microfinance > Social aspects > India > Kolkata.
Poverty > India > Kolkata.
Poor women > India > Kolkata.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : enfolding the poor
  • Entrepreneurship and work at the "bottom of the pyramid"
  • From social banking to financial inclusion
  • The reluctant moneylender
  • The domestication of microfinance
  • Financial risk and the moral economy of credit
  • Insured death, precarious life.