| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Series |
Transforming Asia |
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Transforming Asia.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary |
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 years of 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. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Microfinance -- China.
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Rural development -- China -- Finance.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Microeconomics.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: LOUBERE, NICHOLAS. DEVELOPMENT ON LOAN. [Place of publication not identified] : AMSTERDAM UNIVERSITY PR, 2019 9463722513 (OCoLC)1108142062 |
| ISBN |
9789048544271 (electronic book) |
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9048544270 (electronic book) |
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9463722513 |
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9789463722513 |
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