Local agency and structural continuity: views from an SHG-based microcredit scheme in western India

This article uses Bourdieu and Giddens' perspective of agency to investigate an antipoverty programme of the Indian government that relies on self-help groups for the disbursal of microcredit. Multiple actors impact and refract away from the official agenda of the Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Y...

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Main Author: Sud, N
Format: Journal article
Published: Palgrave Macmillan 2013