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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“The Economy of Shame”: a review of Lamia Karim’s book “Microfinance and Its Discontents”
“The Economy of Shame” (Women’s Review of Books, Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College, November/December 2011) Microfinance and Its Discontents: Women in Debt in Bangladesh by Lamia Karim (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 2011, 255 pp., $25.00, paperback) Reviewed by Ghazal Zulfiqar…
Women and the Broadcast Blacklist—Carol A. Stabile
Carol A. Stabile, “Women and the Broadcast Blacklist,” Communication Currents: A Publication of the National Communication Association (Volume 6 , Issue 5 – October 2011) “In June 1950, an organization called American Business Consultants published Red Channels: The Report of…
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…
The Register-Guard BOOK NOTES: Readings, events, workshops, etc.
BOOK NOTES: Readings, events, workshops, etc.. UO professor’s book looks at problems of microfinance The dark side of microfinance is explored in a new book by Lamia Karim, the associate director of the University of Oregon’s Center for the Study…
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…
