'Selling Our Own Skin:' Social dispossession through microcredit in rural Bangladesh

Geoforum

Volumn 74, Issue , 2016, Pages 29-38

  Paprocki, Kasia ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Bangladesh; Development; Dispossession; Microcredit; Social reproduction

Indexed keywords

CREDIT PROVISION; ENTREPRENEUR; MICROECONOMICS; NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION; RURAL DEVELOPMENT; WOMENS STATUS;

BANGLADESH;

EID: 84971607553     PISSN: 00167185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2016.05.008     Document Type: Article

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