Editor’s Note: Erin Beck is a long-time CSWS affiliate and co-coordinator of the CSWS Américas Research Interest Group. Source: Study finds microfinance can help, even if goals aren’t met | Around the O August 7, 2017—UO political scientist Erin Beck…
Dr. Lamia Karim’s book Microfinance and Its Discontents: Women in Debt in Bangladesh (University of Minnesota Press, 2011) recently came out in a Korean edition (Maybooks, 2015). The book is a radical critique of the effects of microfinance NGOs, including…
Browsing Room Knight Library 1501 Kincaid St. UO campus Economic globalization has fundamentally reshaped class and gender dynamics around the world. It has brought millions of young women to work in urban industrial and service sectors, introducing new social roles,…
Spring 2014 CSWS Research Matters: “In Guatemala: Everyday Practices and Experiences of Development through Women’s Eyes,” by Erin Beck, Assistant Professor, University of Oregon Department of Political Science Political science professor Erin Beck’s ethnographic study of women in Guatemala who…
The Hidden Ways Microfinance Hurts Women | Brandeis Magazine. Lamia Karim’s book, Microfinance and Its Discontents: Women in Debt in Bangladesh, (University of Minnesota Press, 2011) is featured in the Fall 2012/ Winter 2013 issue of Brandeis Magazine. An associate…
Microfinance: Assessing the Economic and Cultural Implications of Microfinance on Poverty from Cross-Cultural Perspectives Research Team Short Seminar September 25–27, 2012 School of Advanced Research (SAR) Santa Fe, N.M. Milford Bateman, Chair, Visiting Professor of Economics, University of Juraj Dobrila…
