this observation imply that targeting transfers to women is good economic policy? We develop a series of noncooperative … assess the policy implications of these models. We find that targeting transfers to women can have unintended consequences … and may fail to make children better off. Moreover, different forms of empowering women may lead to opposite results. More …

Women’s empowerment and economic development are closely related: in one direction, development alone can play a major … role in driving down inequality between men and women; in the other direction, empowering women may benefit development … equality between men and women. …

development goals. Microfinance in particular has often been argued, but not without controversy, to be a tool for empowering … women. Here, using a randomized controlled trial, we examine whether access to an individually-held commitment savings … women who have below median decision-making power in the baseline, and we find this leads to a shift towards female …

Policymakers often prescribe that microfinance institutions increase interest rates to eliminate reliance on subsidies …

pre-existing group liability 'centres' of approximately twenty women to individual-liability centres (treatment) and kept …

Expanding credit access is a key ingredient of development strategies worldwide. Microfinance practitioners … expansion. There is less consensus on the role of consumer credit in expansion initiatives. Some microfinance institutions are …