Likewise, in the last decade world political and economic leaders have been seduced by the lure of micro-finance schemes where small loans are extended to the world’s poorest populations (notably to women) in order to share with them the magic of free-market capitalism and the uplifting responsibility of debt (Bateman 2010; Roy 2012; Young 2010).

Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, loc. 73