Give a person a loan and will she be fed a lifetime? Microcredit, aquaculture and capabilities in the Bolivian Amazon
| dc.contributor.author | Eid Valdiviezo, Ahmed Guillermo | |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | Flaherty, Mark | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-05-01T15:45:18Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-05-01T15:45:18Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 2018 | en_US |
| dc.date.issued | 2018-05-01 | |
| dc.degree.department | Department of Geography | |
| dc.degree.level | Master of Arts M.A. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | The development interventions of the past thirty years have relied on microcredit and other microfinancial services as a way to include the poor in the dynamics of the free market, so they may have a better chance of benefiting from economic development. Nowadays, the microfinance industry in Bolivia is highly developed, and the country is usually mentioned next to Bangladesh and India as a success case of microcredit, as a myriad of microfinancial institutions operate combining credit, savings and insurance with education, women empowerment or production efforts. In this setting, the Peces Para la Vida II project was started in Bolivia in early 2015, with the objective of improving food security in Bolivia through the promotion of small-scale aquaculture and fisheries in the Bolivian Amazon. As a part of this promotion strategy, a microcredit component was included in the project with the intention of scaling up the benefits found in the first stage of the project via an individual microcredit component and a group microleasing operation. Using a qualitative application of an analytical framework that combines Amartya Sen’s capability approach and the Department for International Development’s sustainable livelihoods approach, this thesis will argue that unless certain conditions on access to markets that enable savings and wealth creation are met, individual microcredit alone may not be sufficient to lead its users towards capabilities that ultimately improve their access to better endowments of various types of capitals, and that the group leasing operation appears to be more promising in terms of allowing those involved as it tackles productivity and market issues simultaneously, but with an implementation plagued with problems and the short time the operation has been underway, it would be premature to be definitive about these results. | en_US |
| dc.description.scholarlevel | Graduate | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1828/9316 | |
| dc.language | English | eng |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.rights | Available to the World Wide Web | en_US |
| dc.subject | Microcredit | en_US |
| dc.subject | Capabilities | en_US |
| dc.subject | Aquaculture | en_US |
| dc.subject | Livelihoods | en_US |
| dc.title | Give a person a loan and will she be fed a lifetime? Microcredit, aquaculture and capabilities in the Bolivian Amazon | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |