... microfinance industries in the world, the typical loan amount now exceeds the average annual household income and requires land-based collateral. Cambodian borrowers are increasingly over-indebted, compelling families to reduce their food consumption, take out new loans to service prior debts, migrate...

... of those links lie hidden forms of gendered and class-stratified labor that have been under-studied in the prevailing “debt” and “development” framings of microfinance. The subsidy that unpaid reproductive labor provides to global capital has been well established in feminist scholarship ( Dunaway 2014a...