Development on Loan: Microcredit and Marginalisation in Rural China - Couverture souple

Loubere, Nicholas

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1041178034 ISBN 13 : 9781041178033

Editeur : Routledge, 2025

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Nicholas Loubere is an Associate Senior Lecturer in the Study of Modern China at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University. His research examines socioeconomic development in rural China, with a particular focus on microcredit and migration.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1041178034
• ISBN 13: 9781041178033
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 284
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Routledge; https://www.routledge-ny.com/; ; Stockst?dter Str. 20; Gro?ostheim; Bayern; Allemagne