Foreword James K. Galbraith Introduction. Setting the Scene Milford Bateman and Kate Maclean Part One. Background Chapter One. The Political Economy of Microfinance Milford Bateman Chapter Two. Poverty Reduction or the Financialization of Poverty? Maren Duvendack and Philip Mader Part Two. Seduction Chapter Three. Pop Development and the Uses of Feminism Meena Khandelwal and Carla Freeman Chapter Four.
Petit Bourgeois Fantasies: Microcredit, Small-Is-Beautiful Solutions, and Development's New Antipolitics Elliott Prasse-Freeman Chapter Five. Kiva's Staging of "Peer-to-Peer" Charitable Lending: Innovative Marketing or Egregious Deception? Domen Bajde Chapter Six. Muhammad Yunus's Model of Social Business: A New, More Humane Form of Capitalism or a Failed "Next Big Idea"? Milford Bateman and Sonja Novkovic Part Three. Betrayal Chapter Seven. Bosnia's Postconflict Microfinance Experiment: A New Balkan Tragedy Milford Bateman and Dean Sinkovic Chapter Eight. From Tigers to Cats? The Rise and Crisis of Microfinance in Rural India Marcus Taylor Chapter Nine. The Destructive Role of Microcredit in Post-apartheid South Africa Milford Bateman and Khadija Sharife Chapter Ten. Public Goods Provision Aided by Microfinance: Thanks to Groupthink and Ideological Blinkers, It's a Success Philip Mader Chapter Eleven.
The "Scandal" of Grameen: The Nobel Prize, the Bank, and the State in Bangladesh Lamia Karim Chapter Twelve. Agricultural Microfinance and Risk Saturation Charlotte Heales Part Four. Alternatives Chapter Thirteen. Banking on the Difference: Credit Unions as Superior Local Financial Institutions for the Poor Jessica Gordon Nembhard Chapter Fourteen. Microfinance and the "Woman" Question Kate Maclean Chapter Fifteen. Moral and Other Economies: Nijera Kori and Its Alternatives to Microcredit Kasia Paprocki Chapter Sixteen: The "Solidarity Economy" Model and Local Finance: Lessons from New Left Experiments in Latin America? Milford Bateman and Kate Maclean Conclusion. It's the Politics, Stupid Milford Bateman and Kate Maclean References Contributors Index.