Key to China's plans to promote rural development is the de-marginalisation of the countryside through the incorporation of rural areas into the urban-based market-oriented financial system. For this reason, Chinese development planners have turned to microcredit -- i.e. the provision of small-scale loans to 'financially excluded' rural households -- as a means of increasing 'financial consciousness' and facilitating rural de-marginalisation. Drawing on in-depth fieldwork in rural China, this book examines the formulation, implementation and outcomes of government-run microcredit programmes in China-illuminating the diverse roles that microcredit plays in local processes of socioeconomic development and the livelihoods of local actors. It details how microcredit facilitates de-marginalisation for some, while simultaneously exacerbating the marginalisation of others; and exposes the ways in which microcredit and other top-down development strategies reflect and reinforce the contradictions and paradoxes implicit in rural China's contemporary development landscape.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9789463722513
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-94-6372-251-3
- Verlag: Routledge
- Erscheinungstermin: 07.11.2019
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 2019
- Serie: Transforming Asia
- Produktform: Gebunden, HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 1140 g
- Seiten: 284
- Format (B x H x T): 161 x 240 x 20 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
Themen
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften
- Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen
- Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen: Allgemeines
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften
- Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen
- Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen: Allgemeines
