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48345-01 - Doktoratsveranstaltung: Debating Microfinance (3 KP)
| Semester | Herbstsemester 2017 |
| Angebotsmuster | einmalig |
| Dozierende | Brigit Obrist van Eeuwijk (brigit.obrist@unibas.ch, BeurteilerIn) |
| Inhalt | Until a few years ago, “microfinance for development” was a hype among researchers, policy makers, politicians, NGOs and grassroot-activists across the globe. Access to affordable credit was pioneered in the 1970s by the Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus, as a way to support the entrepreneurial capacity of poor people. Largely funded by grants and aid, the microfinance sector grew quickly and fuelled hopes for a new "miracle cure" for global poverty. In the following decades, the microfinance industry has been growing rapidly. However, in the past decade, a highly emotional debate about microfinance has broken out. The MARG seminar aims to trace this debate and to provide an up-to-date view. Which developments have triggered the debate? Who are the key actors in the pro- and contra-microfinance movements, and what are their arguments? What is the evidence produced by case studies? What is at stake, for whom and why? What are the key concepts, logics and societal processes underpinning the microfinance controversy? And how does it fit with debates about other “fads” of the global poverty discourse, for example cash-transfers and the more recent call for financial inclusion? |
| Lernziele | The PhD students know the main arguments pro- and contra-microfinance from the perspetive of critical social science |
| Literatur | Roodman David (2012) Due Diligence: An Impertinent Inquiry into Microfinance. CGD Books. Mader, P. (2014). Mikrofinanz zwischen "finanzieller Inklusion" und Finanzialisierung. In M. Heires, & A. Nölke (Eds.), Politische Ökonomie der Finanzialisierung (pp. 163-177). Wiesbaden: Springer VS. Zitierlink: http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0014-BE28-D |
| Unterrichtssprache | Englisch |
| Einsatz digitaler Medien | kein spezifischer Einsatz |
| Intervall | Wochentag | Zeit | Raum |
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| Module |
Doktorat Afrika-Studien: Empfehlungen (Promotionsfach: Afrika-Studien) Doktorat Ethnologie: Empfehlungen (Promotionsfach: Ethnologie) |
| Prüfung | Lehrveranst.-begleitend |
| Hinweise zur Prüfung | Diverse forms of active participation (group discussions, oral presentaitons, reading response papers, etc.) |
| An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung | Anmelden: Belegen; Abmelden: nicht erforderlich |
| Wiederholungsprüfung | keine Wiederholungsprüfung |
| Skala | Pass / Fail |
| Belegen bei Nichtbestehen | nicht wiederholbar |
| Zuständige Fakultät | Philosophisch-Historische Fakultät, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Anbietende Organisationseinheit | Fachbereich Ethnologie |