Financializing poverty : labor and risk in Indian microfinance /

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Author / Creator:	Kar, Sohini, author.
Imprint:	Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2018]
Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 259 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	South Asia in motion South Asia in motion.
Subject:	Microfinance -- India -- Kolkata. Microfinance -- Social aspects -- India -- Kolkata. Poverty -- India -- Kolkata. Poor women -- India -- Kolkata. Microfinance. Poor women. Poverty. India -- Kolkata. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12018152

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ISBN:	9781503605893 1503605892 9781503604841
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 18, 2018).
Summary:	In India, a growing number of for-profit microfinance institutions (MFIs) have emerged, promising social and economic empowerment while, in reality, they have mainly succeeded at enfolding the poor into the vast circuits of global finance. This book ethnographically examines how the emergence of MFIs has allowed financial institutions in the city of Kolkata to capitalize on the poverty of its residents.
Other form:	Print version: Kar, Sohini. Financializing poverty. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2018 9781503604841

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