TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kar,Sohini
TI  - Financializing poverty: labor and risk in Indian microfinance 
T2  - South Asia in motion
SN  - 9781503605893
AV  - HG178 .F563 2018
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Stanford, California
PB  - Stanford University Press
KW  - Microfinance
KW  - India
KW  - Kolkata
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Poverty
KW  - Poor women
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Introduction : enfolding the poor --; Entrepreneurship and work at the "bottom of the pyramid" --; From social banking to financial inclusion --; The reluctant moneylender --; The domestication of microfinance --; Financial risk and the moral economy of credit --; Insured death, precarious life; 2; b
N2  - In India, a growing number of for-profit microfinance institutions (MFIs) have emerged, promising social and economic empowerment while, in reality, they have mainly succeeded at enfolding the poor into the vast circuits of global finance. This book ethnographically examines how the emergence of MFIs has allowed financial institutions in the city of Kolkata to capitalize on the poverty of its residents
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