{"product_id":"development-on-loan-microcredit-and-marginalisation-in-rural-china-9781041178033","title":"Development on Loan: Microcredit and Marginalisation in Rural China","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Loubere Nicholas\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Economics - Microeconomics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKey to China's plans to promote rural development is the de-marginalisation of the countryside through the incorporation of rural areas into the urban-based market-oriented financial system. For this reason, Chinese development planners have turned to microcredit -- i.e. the provision of small-scale loans to 'financially excluded' rural households -- as a means of increasing 'financial consciousness' and facilitating rural de-marginalisation. Drawing on in-depth fieldwork in rural China, this book examines the formulation, implementation and outcomes of government-run microcredit programmes in China-illuminating the diverse roles that microcredit plays in local processes of socioeconomic development and the livelihoods of local actors. It details how microcredit facilitates de-marginalisation for some, while simultaneously exacerbating the marginalisation of others; and exposes the ways in which microcredit and other top-down development strategies reflect and reinforce the contradictions and paradoxes implicit in rural China's contemporary development landscape.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Routledge","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47616420479127,"sku":"9781041178033","price":3818.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781041178033.webp?v=1775113253","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/development-on-loan-microcredit-and-marginalisation-in-rural-china-9781041178033","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}