Microfinance is a dominant strategy used to promote rural development around the world.
Rather than directly track its impact on borrowers, however, microfinance institutions rely on …

The operations of microfinance are exalted in mainstream development thinking as a key
means of supporting smallholder farmers facing growing crises of agricultural productivity in …

This article critically analyzes agrarian finance in terms of household credit and debt in the
global south. I introduce interdisciplinary concepts about agrarian finance before reviewing …

This historical overview uses a political ecology approach to examine agricultural change
over time in Northwest Cambodia. It focuses on key historical periods, actors, and processes …

Through ethnography of de-agrarianization and extraction in Myanmar, the article shows
how threshold subjects–poor laborers uncertain whether they are relatively or absolutely …

Based on research about Cambodia's rice sector, this article explains how an emerging
Chinese food regime contributes to local agrarian transitions. It argues that Chinese …

This article examines how livelihood security is co-produced through multiple strategies in
Southeast Asia's agrarian transformation, by considering the case of Cambodian migrant …

Many people in the Global South have left behind rural homes in search of employment in
urban and transnational labor markets often defined by precarious work. Employment is …

Cambodian microfinance borrowers are suffering from an over‐indebtedness crisis. In the
past 20 years, the Cambodian government has implemented financial reforms that have …

Drawing on 203 quantitative surveys with women workers in Cambodia and a further set of
semi-structured interviews with 60 original participants, this paper is one of the very first to …