Sebastian Strangio: Is Microfinance Pushing The World’s Poorest Even Deeper Into Poverty? | The New Republic. December 14, 2011—CSWS Associate Director Lamia Karim quoted in The New Republic: …“Skepticism of microfinance and its benefits, meanwhile, has migrated to the academy…
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UO Today #473: Lamia Karim
UO Today #473: Lamia Karim UO Today week of August 8, 2011: Lamia Karim, Anthropology and Associate Director of CSWS, discusses her forthcoming book Microfinance and Its Discontents: Women in Debt in Bangladesh, the first feminist critique of the much-lauded…
Lamia Karim Interviewed by Wall Street Journal Reporter for Her Expertise on Microfinance
March 8, 2011: Court Upholds Yunus Sacking from Grameen — Wall Street Journal (A high court in Bangladesh Tuesday upheld a central bank decision last week that Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus must resign as head of the microfinance bank he…
CSWS Associate Director Lamia Karim Interviewed on NPR
Listen to UO anthropology professor Lamia Karim on NPR’s All Things Considered: http://www.npr.org/2011/03/02/134208312/nobel-winner-removed-from-bank-he-founded Lamia Karim, associate professor of the University of Oregon Department of Anthropology and associate director of the UO Center for the Study of Women in Society, was…
UO Anthropology Professor to Be Interviewed on The Jefferson Exchange
Cultural anthropologist Lamia Karim, author of Microfinance and Its Discontents: Women in Debt in Bangladesh (University of Minnesota Press, 2011), will be interviewed Tuesday, July 19, from 9–10 a.m. on The Jefferson Exchange <www.jeffersonexchange.org>—a live interview and listener call-in program…
