social impacts of the formation of self-help groups in India. They find positive impacts on empowerment and nutritional …

"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 …

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

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 … women play in rural Cambodian households, and describes a pilot initiative, reducing deforestation and pollution, and …

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 … women's privacy, financial autonomy, decision making and labor force participation. Yet, despite this potential, gaps in … inclusion more broadly. It is not meant to serve as a comprehensive guide to women's economic empowerment. Instead, the brief …

findings show greater returns among men than among women; indeed, returns were not different from zero for women. The authors … social constraints limiting sales to local areas are not important. However, there is evidence that women invested grants … spend the grant on working capital and women on equipment. The gender gap is largest when male-dominated sectors are …

key microfinance approaches in India, taking a close look at the most dominant among these, the Self Help Group (SHG) Bank …: India's rural poor currently have very little access to finance from formal sources. Microfinance approaches have tried to …"This paper reviews the current level and pattern of access to finance for India's rural poor and examines some of the …

In the past two years, the publication of three impact evaluations of microcredit programs in India, the Philippines …