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January 11, 2016

Korean edition of AST Prof. Lamia Karim’s book

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Dr. Lamia Karim’s book Microfinance and Its Discontents: Women in Debt in Bangladesh, University of Minnesota Press, 2011 came out with a Korean edition published by Maybooks, 2015.

The book Korean Publication Karim's Titleis a radical critique of the effects of microfinance NGOs, including the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh that went onto win the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, on rural women. Through ethnographic case studies, the book examines how access to microfinance loans have disempowered rural women in Bangladesh.

Karim is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Oregon, and a former associate director of Center for the Study of Women in Society (CSWS) .

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