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Solving Poverty for Yourself: Micro-Enterprise Development, Microfinance and Migration
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Eversole, R, Solving Poverty for Yourself: Micro-Enterprise Development, Microfinance and Migration, Micro- Enterprises- Perspectives and Experiences , Icfai University Press, Sridhar Krishna (ed), Hyderbad, India, pp. 10. ISBN 978-81-314-1924-3 (2008) [Research Book Chapter]
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Abstract
Microenterprise development and microfinance have been widely adopted as
anti-poverty strategies internationally. They are popular because they provide a
meeting-point between neo-liberal advocates of private enterprise and the
market as creators and distributors of resources, and grassroots practitioners’
focus on local agency and the on-the-ground problems of poverty. Thus, like the
category ‘informal sector’ before it, microenterprise finance has become a
"category for both the management of growth, and for the management of
equity" (Peattie, 1987, p. 855). Now, migration and the significant economic
transfers represented by migrant remittances are coming to the attention of
international development policy-makers and researchers interested in poverty
reduction (Adams and Page, 2003). This paper traces these international
development trends, and reflects on both the potential and the dangers of current
attention to migrant remittances as a source of anti-poverty development
finance, given the blind spots and biases that have plagued earlier anti-poverty
efforts.
Item Details
Item Type: | Research Book Chapter |
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Research Division: | Human Society |
Research Group: | Anthropology |
Research Field: | Anthropology of development |
Objective Division: | Culture and Society |
Objective Group: | Other culture and society |
Objective Field: | Other culture and society not elsewhere classified |
UTAS Author: | Eversole, R (Professor Robyn Eversole) |
ID Code: | 57343 |
Year Published: | 2008 |
Deposited By: | Institute for Regional Development |
Deposited On: | 2009-07-10 |
Last Modified: | 2013-03-28 |
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