Women's Empowerment or the Feminisation of Debt

Microfinance programmes targeting women have been promoted since the mid-1990s as a key strategy for simultaneously addressing poverty reduction and women's empowerment.

This Report, Women's Empowerment or Feminisation of Debt, questions the adequacy of the particular models of microfinance being promoted and the underlying assumptions about the nature of development on which they are based.

By Linda Mayoux, 2002