Purpose Women empowerment becomes an important policy discussion in development
economics and modernization theory. The empowerment of women can lead to an increase …

This article examines differing accounts of how and why consumers use credit as well as the
consequences of credit for inequality and social solidarity. We articulate these explanations …

This article critically analyzes agrarian finance in terms of household credit and debt in the
global south. I introduce interdisciplinary concepts about agrarian finance before reviewing …

This paper proposes the concept of the 'socio-economy of debt'to explore the ambivalence
of debt, its multiple facets and its capacity to exploit, protect or emancipate. This socio …

In the context of neoliberal financialization, what is the role of debt in agrarian change? To
address this question, I combine insights about debt from rural political ecology and …

Financial inclusion is a central theme in development policy. While it involves changes at the
individual level and comprises several interrelated financial activities, most existing …

Through a multi-sited ethnographic study of 30 internal migrants working in informal
occupations in Delhi, I show that the everyday lived experience of these migrants in India is …

In popular thinking, debt evokes notions of vulnerability and bondage, while irregular
migration for sex work conjures up the hazards of human trafficking and modern slavery 1 …

Rural indebtedness is a major development challenge confronting India. In 2018, scores of
farmers protested rising household debt, and the popular coverage of the time asserted that …

The informal economy is typically depicted as a policy problem, with many governments
criminalising entrepreneurial endeavours in the informal sector and ignoring the importance …