Deadline for Proposals: December 28, 2007

Perspectives on Global Development and Technology is seeking papers featuring original research on the economic, political and social implications of microfinance around the world.  This includes studies on microcredit, as well as other financial services now being offered by microfinance institutions, such as savings, insurance and remittances.  We welcome submissions from various disciplines, as well as practitioners.  The research must be methodologically rigorous and theoretically innovative, including perspectives that analyze microfinance in the context of economic and cultural globalization.

Papers accepted will appear in the Spring 2009 edition of Perspectives on Global Development and Technology, as well as a soft cover anthology published later that year by Brill Academic Press.

The deadline for proposals is December 28, 2007.  Submit a 200-word abstract to:

Dwight Haase
Department of Sociology & Anthropology
University of Toledo
Toledo, Ohio 43606, USA
dwight.haase@utoledo.edu
phone: +1 419.530.4953, fax: +1 419.530.8406 

Full papers will be due September 26, 2008. 

Perspectives on Global Development and Technology is a new peer-reviewed journal that provides a forum for scholars to publish and discuss current social science research on diverse socioeconomic development issues that reflect profoundly altered opportunities and threats wrought by the bipolar to global world order shift, the present monopoly of economic liberalization that constricts development options, and the new enabling technologies of the Information Age.