Date of Award

1-1-2012

Language

English

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

College/School/Department

Department of Anthropology

Content Description

1 online resource (x, 245 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color)

Dissertation/Thesis Chair

Walter Little

Committee Members

Jennifer Burrell, Robert Carmack

Keywords

Development, Governmentality, Microfinance, Nicaragua, Political Economy, Risk

Subject Categories

Social and Cultural Anthropology

Abstract

This research examines the livelihood strategies of rural agriculturalists in Nicaragua in relation to the availability of microcredit and microfinance. Since its emergence as a tool for development in the 1970 microlending has become a key tactic for many developing countries in their attempt to reduce poverty and improve the lives of the poor. With the arrival of the global recession, however, the weaknesses of this strategy were highlighted as growing numbers of individuals around the globe struggled to make payments on their microloans. Faced with shame, loss of land and property, or jail, debtors around the globe responded to their situations in very different ways. In Nicaragua they turned to protest.

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