Development on Loan: Microcredit and Marginalisation in Rural China
| dc.contributor.author | Nicholas Loubere | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-02-02T12:14:51Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-02-02T12:14:51Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Key to China's plans to promote rural development is the de-marginalisation of the countryside through the incorporation of rural areas into the urban-based market-oriented financial system. For this reason, Chinese development planners have turned to microcredit -- i.e. the provision of small-scale loans to 'financially excluded' rural households -- as a means of increasing 'financial consciousness' and facilitating rural de-marginalisation. Drawing on in-depth fieldwork in rural China, this book examines the formulation, implementation and outcomes of government-run microcredit programmes in China, illuminating the diverse roles that microcredit plays in local processes of socioeconomic development and the livelihoods of local actors. It details how microcredit facilitates de-marginalisation for some, while simultaneously exacerbating the marginalisation of others; and exposes the ways in which microcredit and other top-down development strategies reflect and reinforce the contradictions and paradoxes implicit in rural China's contemporary development landscape. | |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 9.78905E+12 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://idr.informaticsglobal.com/handle/123456789/19814 | |
| dc.language | English | |
| dc.publisher | Amsterdam University Press | |
| dc.subject | Business & Economics | |
| dc.subject | Social & Management Sciences::Business, Economy and Management::Banking and Investment | |
| dc.title | Development on Loan: Microcredit and Marginalisation in Rural China | |
| dc.type | Book |
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