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SUMMARY: The Sudden Expansion and Contraction of China’s Microfinance for W
 omen Program
DESCRIPTION: China scholars have explored shirking by local officials and “
 effective implementation\,” but fewer have examined polices that are implem
 ented with great enthusiasm. The Microfinance for Women Program fits in thi
 s last category. Especially in Sichuan\, targets for lending were set by th
 e province\, exceeded\, raised\, and then exceeded again. The immediate rea
 son that loan-making took […]
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: <p>China scholars have explored shirking by l
 ocal officials and “effective implementation\,” but fewer have examined pol
 ices that are implemented with great enthusiasm. The Microfinance for Women
  Program fits in this last category. Especially in Sichuan\, targets for le
 nding were set by the province\, exceeded\, raised\, and then exceeded agai
 n. The immediate reason that loan-making took off in 2012 was the relaxatio
 n of collateral requirements that shifted the risk of defaults away from lo
 cal authorities. But the surge in lending also had deeper roots in the poli
 cy’s vagueness\, institutional incentives\, bureaucratic pressure\, and loc
 al fiscal and organizational interests. Although enthusiastic implementatio
 n occurred (and generated much-needed revenues for local governments)\, the
  history of the program also shows that it can be halted\, as the authoriti
 es did when instability loomed and they reversed bureaucratic pressure by c
 alling for local cost-sharing and introducing uncertainty over whether inte
 rest subsidies would continue.</p><p><strong>About the speaker:</strong> Ke
 vin O’Brien is the Alann P. Bedford Professor of Asian Studies and Professo
 r of Political Science. He is also the Director of Berkeley's Institute of 
 East Asian Studies and the Walter and Elise Haas Professor of Asian Studies
 . He is the author of<em> Rural Politics in Contemporary China</em> (Routle
 dge\, 2014) and <em>Grassroots Elections in China</em>(Routledge\, 2011)\, 
 and the editor of <em>Popular Protest in China</em> (Harvard\, 2008).</p><h
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 -Poster-v3.jpg">Event Poster </a></h2>
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