Development on Loan: Microcredit and Marginalisation in Rural China

di Nicholas Loubere (Autore)

Amsterdam University Press, 2019

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.

• Autore: Nicholas Loubere
• Editore: Amsterdam University Press
• Collana: Transforming Asia
• Anno: 2019
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 284 p.
• Dimensioni: 234 x 156 mm
• EAN: 9789463722513

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