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Economic and social impacts of self-help groups in india
Deininger, Klaus W. - 2009
forming self-help groups to mobilize savings and foster social empowerment at the local level is virtually non … social impacts of the formation of self-help groups in India. They find positive impacts on empowerment and nutritional … as non-participants. Female social and economic empowerment in program areas increased irrespective of participation …
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Longer-term economic impacts of self-help groups in India
Deininger, Klaus W. - 2009
"Despite the popularity and unique nature of women's self-help groups in India, evidence of their economic impacts is scant. Based on two rounds of a 2,400 household panel, the authors use double differences, propensity score matching, and pipeline comparison to assess economic impacts of longer...
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Sustainability of microfinance self help groups in India : would federating help?
Nair, Ajai - 2005
"The major form of microfinance in India is that based on women's Self Help Groups (SHGs), which are small groups of 10--20 members. These groups collect savings from their members and provide loans to them. However, unlike most accumulating savings and credit associations (ASCAs) found in...
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Building on Tradition as the Way to Women???s Empowerment in Cambodia
World Bank - 2012
Approximately eighty percent of Cambodians live in rural areas with limited access to clean and affordable water and energy. Thirty-four percent of the rural population lives below the national poverty line on less than 2,367 riels ($0.60) per day. Even though Cambodia is a low income country,...
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Moving from Traditional to Transformational Approaches to Women's Economic Empowerment - A Review of the KDRDIP Program
World Bank - 2023
practices to strengthen women's economic empowerment outcomes, and how government and other development actors can employ an …
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Measuring Women's Economic Empowerment in Payment Projects : A Short Module to Complement Context-Specific Measures
World Bank - 2022
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 …
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Making Transport Work for Women and Men : Tools for Task Teams
World Bank - 2013
The primary objective of this report is to provide brief, relevant, and practical tools for World Bank task teams and their country counterparts to facilitate their work in addressing gender issues in transport policies and projects. This responds to the need, expressed by task teams, to...
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Disability-Inclusive Health Care Systems : Technical Note for World Bank Task Teams
World Bank - 2022
The objective of this Technical Note is to provide task teams and task team leaders (TTLs) with tools for designing and delivering health care services that are inclusive of disability. More specifically, the ambition of this Technical Note is to improve awareness and skills of TTLs and other...
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Promoting enterprise-led innovation in China
Zhang, Chunlin (contributor) - 2009
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New technologies, new risks? : innovation and countering the financing of terrorism
Zerzan, Andrew - 2009
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