| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Transforming Asia |
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Transforming Asia.
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| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Language, Currency Units, and Referencing -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Rural Financial Services in China -- 3. Making Microcredit -- 4. Variation in Microcredit Implementation -- 5. Microcredit as Modernisation and De-marginalisation -- 6. Microcredit, Precarious Livelihoods, and Undercurrents of Marginalisation -- 7. Conclusion -- Acronyms -- Glossary of Chinese Terms -- Interviews -- Bibliography |
| 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 |
| Analysis |
Actor-oriented Approach |
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China |
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Financial Inclusion |
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Livelihoods |
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Marginalisation |
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Microcredit |
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Microfinance |
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Relational Approach |
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Rural Development |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Microfinance -- China
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Rural development -- China -- Finance
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China.
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Microeconomics.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Microeconomics.
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Microfinance
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Rural development -- Finance
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China
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789048544271 |
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9048544270 |
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