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Can women's self-help groups contribute to sustainable development? : evidence of capability changes from Northern India

Anand, Paul; Saxena, Swati; Gonzales Martinez, Rolando; … - 2020

programs despite modest global research evidence for micro-finance impacts on nominal incomes. Second, results argue strongly …

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Under-savers anonymous : evidence on self-help groups and peer pressure as a savings commitment device

Kast, Felipe; Meier, Stephan; Pomeranz, Dina - 2012

While commitment devices such as defaults and direct deposits from wages have been found to be highly effective to increase savings, they are unavailable to the millions of people worldwide who not have a formal wage bill. Self-help peer groups are an alternative commitment device that is...

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Measuring women's empowerment in Rwanda

Musonera, Abdou; Heshmati, Almas - 2016

This study examines the determinants of women's empowerment in Rwanda using data obtained from DHS 2010. A regression analysis is used to investigate the association between women's empowerment and its covariates. The study also uses a multinomial logistic regression to assess what determines...

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The city as a self-help book : the psychology of urban promises

Cardoso, Rodrigo V.; Meijers, Evert J.; Ham, Maarten van; … - 2017

Despite the many negative aspects of life in cities, urban promises of economic prosperity, freedom and happiness have fuelled the imagination of generations of migrants, who have flocked to cities in search of a better life, invariably exaggerating the opportunities and neglected the potential...

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Empowerment or indoctrination? : female training programs under dictatorship

González, Felipe; Prem, Mounu; Dessauer, Cristine von - 2024

Autocrats often control social organizations to disseminate their ideology. We examine the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile (1973-1990), where conservative military forces controlled female social organizations to promote traditional roles for women as mothers and housewives. Partnering with...

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A theory of efficiency wage with multiple unemployment equilibria : how a higher minimum wage law can curb unemployment

Basu, Kaushik (contributor); Felkey, Amanda J. (contributor) - 2008

This paper uses efficiency wage theory and the existence of community-based sharing to hypothesize that labor markets in developing countries have multiple equilibria - the same economy can be stuck at different levels of unemployment with different levels of wages. The model is meant for...

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Reforming the financial incentives of the welfare system

Card, David E. - 2000

This paper summarizes the findings from the Self Sufficiency Project: a large scale social experiment that is being conducted in Canada to evaluate the effect of high-powered financial incentives for full time work among former welfare recipients. The experimental results confirm the importance...

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Surviving unemployment without state support : unemployment and household formation in South Africa

Klasen, Stephan; Woolard, Ingrid - 2000

High unemployment in many OECD countries is often attributed, at least in part, to the generosity and long duration of unemployment compensation. It is therefore instructive to examine a country where high unemployment exists despite the near complete absence of an unemployment insurance system....

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Empowering women under social constraints : evidence from a field intervention in rural Egypt

Elsayed, Ahmed; Roushdy, Rania - 2017

Women in the MENA region are economically and socially disempowered. High youth unemployment rates together with discriminatory social norms drive them to limit their investment in human capital. We evaluate a large-scale intervention attempting to relax human capital constraints for women by...

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Is rationing in the microfinance sector determined by the microfinance type? : evidence from Ghana

Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Sackey, Frank Gyimah - 2015

microfinance type based on the major factors determining micro, small and medium enterprises' access to credit from microfinance … institutions in the era of financial liberalization. The data for the study were gleaned from fourteen microfinance institutions … rationing is not influenced by the microfinance types but by the individual microfinance institutions. …

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