A genealogical study of small credit policies in Sri Lanka: development agencies and anthropology of knowledge

我们的目的是考察1990年代S时期斯里兰卡小额信贷计划的谱系，即Janasaviya和SMurudhi计划。这里的一个主要问题是，为什么南亚国家的大多数政策都选择了乡村银行模式。我们试图从斯里兰卡发展机构和咨询公司的特定知识活力的角度来分析决策过程。正如DiMaggio和Powell(1983)在《铁笼重访：组织领域中的制度同构和集体理性》一书中所讨论的那样，组织产生的知识往往在竞争情况或市场情况下汇聚成主导的知识，这是指一种特殊的动力。尽管由于收集的数据太多，我们无法在这两年完成我们的分析，但我们明确了以下两点：1.通过阅读关于Janasaviya和Samurudhi项目的会议文件和采访数据，人们发现，小额信贷政策与乡村银行模式的趋同是由于官僚主义模式，在这种模式下，大多数官僚和技术官僚热衷于为自己保留一种最安全的决策“形式”，而不考虑其内容和假定的结果。那些参与政策制定的人几乎不记得他们与同事就小额信贷讨论了什么。在我们看来，他们只关心一种空洞的政策形式，正如A.Riles(2000)在《网络内幕》中所描述的那样。这一点让我们想到了我们在报告中讨论的发展记忆。如前所述，我们将继续分析这项研究收集的数据，并很快发布另一份报告。

We aimed to examine the genealogy of micro-credit scheme in Sri Lanka during 1990' s, that is Janasaviya and Smurudhi program. A main question here was why the Grameen Bank model had been selected by most policies in South Asian countries. We attempted to analyze the policy-making process in terms of a particular dynamism of knowledge among development agencies and consultancies in Sri Lanka. It was meant by "a particular dynamism" that knowledge produced by organization tends to converge into a dominant one in a competitive situation or market situation as DiMaggio and Powell (1983) discussed in "The iron cage revisited: Institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields".Although we could not complete our analyses during these two years due to too much data gathered, the following two points are made clear:1. Through reading conference documents and interview data on Janasaviya and Samurudhi programs, the convergence of micro-credit policy into the Grameen Bank model were found to be due to a mode of bureaucracy in which most bureaucrats and technocrats were keen interested in keeping a safest 'form' of policy-making for themselves without considering the contents and supposed results.2. Those who were engaged with the policy-making hardly remembered what they discussed with their colleagues on micro-credits. It seems to us that they were concerned with only an empty form of policy as A. Riles (2000) described in The network inside out. This point led us to think about memory of development as discusses in our Report here.As mentioned already, we will continue our analyses of data gathered in this research and publish another report soon.