The Policy and Practice of Microcredit in Rural China
Toward a Relational Understanding of Heterogeneous Implementation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6008567 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nicholas Loubere (0000-0002-2386-5643, Lund University, Lund, Sweden, corresponding author), Qiu Shen (0000-0001-5515-3125, China Center for International Knowledge on Development, Beijing, China), Shen Qiu (China National Center for Biotechnology Development) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 418-452 |
| Publication date | 2018-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modern China (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0097-7004 • E-ISSN: 1552-6836 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0097700417753734 |
| OpenAlex | W2778792986 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 33 |
Much research on rural development interventions in China has found substantial variation in their implementation at the local level. These studies often analyze the reasons for this heterogeneity by identifying variables responsible for influencing (or distorting) interventions as they travel from central formulation to local implementation. Through an in-depth ethnographic examination of the local implementation of one of China’s largest microcredit programs in three townships in rural Jiangxi province, this article challenges the dominant depiction of external development interventions as reified and linear, and instead proposes a relational approach to understanding local heterogeneity. This approach reveals implementation outcomes to be emergent from negotiations between diverse sets of actors at different levels. At the same time, it becomes clear that microcredit implementation reflects the contradictions implicit in China’s political economy of development. This points to two levels of implementation “relationality,” which results in unpredictable semi-chaotic variation, while simultaneously reproducing wider developmental relations
China · Depiction · Economic growth · Economic system · Economics · Ethnography · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Psychological intervention · Social science · Sociology · Variation (astronomy · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Microfinance and Financial Inclusion · Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 0,83 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |