Social SciencesGender StudiesSociologyRural DevelopmentRural SociologyWomen's StudiesFeminist AnthropologyGender EqualityMicrofinancePovertyRural BankingRural Gender RelationsCapitalist Social FormationMicrofinance In Rural AreasNgo AdvocacyNgo CollaborationNgo Gender AdvocacyNgo ParticipationRural Women's EmpowermentWomen Empowerment
This article is an ethnographic study of the effects of micro-credit on gender relations in rural Bangladesh. Focusing on the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner, the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh and three other leading non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in the country, I analyze the role of gender in the expansion of globalization and neoliberalism in Bangladesh. The Grameen Bank has become a global symbol of poor women's empowerment and is celebrated for its 98 percent loan recovery. In this article, I examine some of the NGO tactics behind the loan recovery programs. In particular, I examine how Bangladeshi rural women's honor and shame are instrumentally appropriated by micro-credit NGOs in the furtherance of their capitalist interests.
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Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy
Arjun Appadurai · Public Culture · 1990 · 3.9K citations