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44The Andhra Pradesh Microfinance Crisis and American Payday Lending: Two studies in vulnerabilityRévue Ethique Et Economique / Ethics and Economics 10 (2): 44-57. 2013.Microcredit, a non-profit lending approach that is often championed as a source of women’s inclusion and empowerment, has in the past decade been followed by microfinance, a forprofit sibling of a different temperament. Microfinance in India is now in turmoil, precipitated by legislation in the state of Andhra Pradesh, which has encouraged withholding of payment, which in turn has frozen the market. This paper considers one precipitating condition of the crisis: the remarkable, new, and develo…Read more
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Areas of Specialization
Applied Ethics |
General Philosophy of Science |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |