Dr Naaborle Sackeyfio is Assistant Professor of Global and Intercultural Studies at Miami University of Ohio. In this episode, Naborle questions assumptions that microfinance automatically empowers women. She draws on her long experience researching the sector to explain how the impact of microfinance is inseparable from women's social position, family life and access to vital resources like energy. Naaborle argues for reimagining financial institutions to truly encompass the creativity and the power of women. We couldn't agree more!

To find out more about Naaborle's reaserch, take a look at her book: Energy Politics and Rural Development in Sub-Saharan Africa - The Case of Ghana
https://www.palgrave.com/de/book/9783319601212