Article: Banking on Bananas, Crediting Crafts: Financing Women's Work in the Philippine Cordillera

Authors

  • B. Lynne Milgram Ontario College of Art and Design

Keywords:

Globalization, Microfinance, Phillippines, Rural women, Women farmers

Abstract

This paper addresses the emergence of microfinance programmes in international development as a preferred strategy for povertyalleviation and empowering women. Drawing on ethnographic research in the Philippine Cordillera, it argues that microfinance projects have embedded social change objectives in initiatives driven by market-led forces thereby failing to realize social justice for women. To effect a more normative agenda for development, this paper suggests integrating women's perspectives and initiatives other than credit.

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Published

2002-04-01