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The weight of institutions on women’s capabilities: how far can microfinance help?

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  • Isabelle Guérin

    (IRD [Nouvelle-Calédonie] - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement)

  • Muriel Gilardone

    (CREM - Centre de recherche en économie et management - UNICAEN - Université de Caen Normandie - NU - Normandie Université - UR - Université de Rennes - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

  • Jane Palier

    (CALW - Centre Auguste et Léon Walras - UL2 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2 - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

Abstract

Microfinance appears more and more as a tool for women's empowerment. This chapter offers an assessment of the links between the promotion of women's economic capability though the use of microfinance and their social and political capabilities. It shows that empirical studies, in particular fieldwork by the authors in West Africa, Bangladesh and West India, call for circumspection: microfinance can help to free women from certain links of dependence, but can also forge new kinds of subordination. A closer look at informal institutions may help to understand better women's old and new capability constraints.

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  • Isabelle Guérin & Muriel Gilardone & Jane Palier, 2014. "The weight of institutions on women’s capabilities: how far can microfinance help?," Post-Print halshs-01171758, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-01171758
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