Mar 24, 05: Microcredit with Lamia Karim
Professor Lamia Karim discusses the success and failure of Microcredit lending in Bangladesh.
MICROCREDIT, or a small loan without a collateral has been much
favored by NGOs and United Nations as a way to bring women and
families out of poverty. The show will feature an Interview with
LAMIA KARIM on success and failure of Microcredit in empowering
poor women, especially in Bangladesh.
LAMIA KARIM received her Ph.D in Anthropology in 2002 from, Rice
University and joined the Department of Anthropology at the
University of Oregon-Eugene in 2003. Her Ph.D dissertation on
micro-credit in Bangladesh won the John W. Gardner Award for the
Best Dissertation in the Humanities and the Social Sciences at
Rice University (2002). She has published several articles on
globalizations, development, NGOs, and gender that have appeared
in anthropology journals
Professor Karim's research interests include gender, political
economy, Islamic nationalism , violence, postcolonial feminist
theory, and the anthropology of institutions such as NGOs. She
is currently working on a book manuscript entitled "The
Political Economy of Shame: Gender, Development and Debt in the
Postcolonial Context." She is also at work on a new project on
human rights, Islamic nationalism, and transnational feminist
praxis in Bangladesh.
