Revolution, Interrupted

Gender and Microfinance in Nicaragua

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2369983
AutoresDwight Haase (0000-0003-4065-5194, University of Toledo, autor de correspondencia)
Año2012
Volumen38
Número2
Páginas221-240
Fecha de publicación2012-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCritical Sociology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0896-9205 • E-ISSN: 1569-1632
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0896920511404443
OpenAlexW1987437654
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas43

Now reaching over 100 million families, the burgeoning microcredit movement has come to play a dominant role in the international development agenda. This is especially true in Nicaragua, where microcredit has supplanted the Sandinistas' more radical approaches to poverty alleviation and women's empowerment. Survey and focus group data from borrowers with seven prominent Nicaraguan microfinance institutions show that women benefit less than men from microcredit because they get smaller loans and they invest those loans in less lucrative businesses. Also, these women are constrained by household responsibilities. These findings call into question neoliberal notions that market forces can solve societal problems such as gender inequality

Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Empowerment · Gender and development · Inequality · Microfinance · Political science · Poverty · Social change · Women's empowerment · FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance · Microfinance and Financial Inclusion · Taxation and Compliance Studies