social impacts of the formation of self-help groups in India. They find positive impacts on empowerment and nutritional … forming self-help groups to mobilize savings and foster social empowerment at the local level is virtually non … as non-participants. Female social and economic empowerment in program areas increased irrespective of participation …

"Despite the popularity and unique nature of women's self-help groups in India, evidence of their economic impacts is … self-help programs in Andhra Pradesh in India. The analysis finds that longer program exposure has positive impacts on … even under conservative assumptions. "--World Bank web site …

"The major form of microfinance in India is that based on women's Self Help Groups (SHGs), which are small groups of 10 …

.60) per day. Even though Cambodia is a low income country, the cost of electricity is one of the world's highest due to … to increased deforestation. Women traditionally shoulder the burdens of collecting wood and cooking in Cambodian society …. They to produce ceramic cook stoves with the goal of empowering women spend an average of three to four hours a day on …

practices to strengthen women's economic empowerment outcomes, and how government and other development actors can employ an …

Cash transfers and digital payments hold promise for women's economic empowerment through their potential to enhance … inclusion more broadly. It is not meant to serve as a comprehensive guide to women's economic empowerment. Instead, the brief … provides short measures focused on key outcomes related to women's economic empowerment as a complement to more in …

Agriculture Investment Sourcebook (World Bank 2005), this book explores ways in which the public sector can work with the private …

In South Asia, the modern microfinance movement was born in Bangladesh in the 1970s as a response to the prevailing … a new dimension for microfinance worldwide as microfinance institutions grew to include millions of clients. The start … of the twenty-first century reinforced this trend as the Bangladesh numbers continued to grow impressively; in India, a …