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Microfinance Institutions and Post-conflict Women's Empowerment in the Balkans

A Qualitative Comparative Analysis

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Microfinance Institutions and Post-conflict Women's Empowerment in the Balkans

A Qualitative Comparative Analysis

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Preya Bhattacharya offers the first full-length assessment of the impact of microfinance on post-conflict women's empowerment in the Balkans. In so doing, she provides vital new insights into what women's microfinance contributes to macroeconomic development in the former Yugoslavian countries of Macedonia, Croatia, Slovenia, Montenegro, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Kosovo. At the same time, she develops a uniquely clear, concise approach to Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA), which she uses to make sense of an extensive, exhaustive raw set of available data and research. This methodology not only offers a way of using both micro and macroeconomic data to revisit Amartya Sen's theory of development as freedom, but also provides a framework for other researchers to assess the impacts of microfinance on women's development throughout the world, and particularly in the Global South.

For its original focus, its clear and streamlined methodological approach, and its global implications, this book provides a go-to source for researchers, students, and practitioners of international development, gender studies, and economics and finance.

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Table of Contents

Introduction: Microfinance Institutions and Economic Empowerment of Women
Chapter 1. Analyzing the Impact of Microfinance Institutions: Data and Cases
Chapter 2. Microfinance Institutions and Informal Economic Sectors: Own-Account Workers and Family Workers
Chapter 3. Microfinance Institutions and Formal Economic Sectors
Chapter 4. A New Method for Analyzing the Impact of Microfinance Institutions

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Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published 21 Jan 2027
Format Ebook (PDF)
Edition 1st
Pages 208
ISBN 9781350461451
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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Preya Bhattacharya

Preya Bhattacharya is an independent researcher, w…

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