Microcredit alternative in South Asia : (Record no. 344763)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780815386858 (hardback)
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 332.7
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100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Khan, Shahrukh Rafi
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Title Microcredit alternative in South Asia :
Remainder of title Akhuwat's experiment /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Shahrukh Rafi Khan and Natasha Ansari
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. London
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Routledge
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2018
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xiii, 167 pages ;
Dimensions 23 cm.
490 0# - SERIES STATEMENT
Series statement Routledge studies in the growth economies of Asia ;
Volume/sequential designation 140
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary, etc. Microcredit took the development world by storm as a tool for poverty alleviation in the 1980s. After being hailed as a panacea, a few decades on it started being forcefully criticised based on its practice.<br/><br/>This book explores Akhuwat (literally brotherhood), a rapidly growing Pakistani NGO formed in 2001, which addresses the shortcomings of conventional microfinance. Its vision is of a society built on empathy and social solidarity and its mission is that of creating self-sufficiency among the entrepreneurial poor. This book examines whether Akhuwat fulfils its promises of not pushing loans or encouraging clients to get on a debt treadmill and helping them to avoid high debt burdens by charging no interest and easing repayment terms. Conventional microcredit organizations are criticised for losing sight of the original mission of poverty alleviation by engaging in empire building and Akhuwat’s goal is to avoid this by embracing an alternative strategy of scaling up. Finally, this book also analyses Akhuwat’s approach as being gender sensitive and embracing all religions, castes and ethnicities.<br/><br/>Based on fieldwork designed to assess if Akhuwat is the microcredit alternative it claims to be, this book will be of interest to scholars of poverty and development studies in general and microcredit in particular.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Microcredit
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Economic development
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Personal name Ansari, Natasha,
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