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Why Microfinance as Aid Isn’t Enough to Empower Women
If aid programs don’t challenge the structural causes of gender inequality, microfinance will just continue to reinforce poverty and inequality.
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Sara Niner is a Lecturer and Researcher, School of Social Sciences at Monash University. She teaches in the fields of Development Studies, Gender and Development and Anthropology.
Follow via RSSIf aid programs don’t challenge the structural causes of gender inequality, microfinance will just continue to reinforce poverty and inequality.
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