While Microcredit Is Noted for Its Empowerment of Marginalized Women

Multiple Choice

While microcredit is noted for its empowerment of marginalized women, its critiques claim that it is "bankrolling the poor", implying that ______.

A) while it creates new micro-enterprises, it also produces new class/gender inequalities
B) it creates new dependencies
C) it increases the status of men
D) it ensures that women are co-dependent on their paternal social structures.