Poverty Capital: Microfinance and the Making of Development by Ananya Roy

Poverty Capital: Microfinance and the Making of Development

Ananya Roy

253 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction business economics sociology challenging informative medium-paced
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Winner of the 2011 Paul Davidoff award!This is a book about poverty but it does not study the poor and the powerless; instead it studies those who manage poverty. It sheds light on how powerful institutions control "capital," or circuits of profit...

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