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Women's Empowerment: Power to Act or Power over Other Women? Lessons from Indian Microfinance

Isabelle Guérin Research Unit “Development and Societies”, Paris I La Sorbonne University/Institute for Development, Nogent-sur-Marne, France; French Institute of Pondicherry and to the Center of European Research in MicrofinanceCorrespondence[email protected]
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Santhosh Kumar French Institute of Pondicherry, Puducherry, India
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Isabelle Agier Research Unit “Development and Societies”, Paris I La Sorbonne University/Institute for Development, Nogent-sur-Marne, France; French Institute of Pondicherry and to the Center of European Research in Microfinance
Pages S76-S94 | Published online: 28 Apr 2013

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