Abstract
The village banking approach to microfinance aims to empower women by giving them responsibility for and control over certain aspects of the intervention. This paper explores how women members negotiate participation in the bank and analyses the relationship between responsibility, risk and empowerment. It is based on an ethnographic study in Luribay, Bolivia where the microfinance institution Credit with Rural Education has been operating since 2000. The village bank is placed in the context of gender relations in Luribay and ideas of risk, responsibility and empowerment explored in that context.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | S100-S111 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Journal | Journal of International Development |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue number | S1 |
| Early online date | 26 Oct 2010 |
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| Publication status | Published - 6 Jan 2012 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- microfinance
- village banking
- women
- Bolivia
- gender and development
