Mikrokrediter, kvinnor och empowerment - Exemplet Grameen Bank
(2009)Human Rights Studies
- Abstract
- Since Muhammad Yunus, founder of the microloansorganization Grameen Bank, was awarded
the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006, the microloansorganization has received much attention. The
woman has come to play a central role in the microloansorganizations. Her access to capital is
is considered to improve her socioeconomic status. The overall aim of the paper is to examine
how access to microcredit considered leading to empowerment of women. To get an idea of
what a microloansorganization is the Grameen Bank is used as an example. Questions about
microloansorganization, empowerment and the current debate surrounding the microcredit will
be answered.
It seems that women are essential to microloans system since the majority of
their... (More) - Since Muhammad Yunus, founder of the microloansorganization Grameen Bank, was awarded
the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006, the microloansorganization has received much attention. The
woman has come to play a central role in the microloansorganizations. Her access to capital is
is considered to improve her socioeconomic status. The overall aim of the paper is to examine
how access to microcredit considered leading to empowerment of women. To get an idea of
what a microloansorganization is the Grameen Bank is used as an example. Questions about
microloansorganization, empowerment and the current debate surrounding the microcredit will
be answered.
It seems that women are essential to microloans system since the majority of
their repayments always are due in time. A business, which Grameen Bank is after all, always
requests an appropriate target group. In this case, it seems that women represent this group. (Less)
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- author
- Kjellsson, Rebecka
- supervisor
- organization
- year
- 2009
- type
- L2 - 2nd term paper (old degree order)
- subject
- keywords
- Microcredit, Women, Empowerment, Grameen Bank, Social sciences, Samhällsvetenskaper, Human rights, Mänskliga rättigheter
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 1316368
- date added to LUP
- 2009-01-08 00:00:00
- date last changed
- 2014-09-04 08:27:48
@misc{1316368,
abstract = {{Since Muhammad Yunus, founder of the microloansorganization Grameen Bank, was awarded
the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006, the microloansorganization has received much attention. The
woman has come to play a central role in the microloansorganizations. Her access to capital is
is considered to improve her socioeconomic status. The overall aim of the paper is to examine
how access to microcredit considered leading to empowerment of women. To get an idea of
what a microloansorganization is the Grameen Bank is used as an example. Questions about
microloansorganization, empowerment and the current debate surrounding the microcredit will
be answered.
It seems that women are essential to microloans system since the majority of
their repayments always are due in time. A business, which Grameen Bank is after all, always
requests an appropriate target group. In this case, it seems that women represent this group.}},
author = {{Kjellsson, Rebecka}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Mikrokrediter, kvinnor och empowerment - Exemplet Grameen Bank}},
year = {{2009}},
}