Does microcredit "Empower"? Reflections on the Grameen Bank debate

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作者
Selinger, Evan [1 ]
机构
[1] Rochester Inst Technol, Dept Philosophy, Rochester, NY 14623 USA
关键词
development ethics; empowerment; phenomenology; globalization; Grameen Bank; mobile phones;
D O I
10.1007/s10746-007-9076-3
中图分类号
B82 [伦理学(道德学)];
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摘要
Recent debates about the Grameen Bank's microlending practices depict participating female borrowers as having fundamentally empowering or disempowering experiences. I argue that this discursive framework may be too reductive: it can conceal how technique and technology simultaneously facilitate relations of dependence and independence; and it can diminish our capacity to understand and assess innovative development initiatives.
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