This paper examines a cost-reducing innovation to the delivery of "Self-Help Group" microfinance services. These groups …

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 … literature on both sides of the empowerment-development nexus, and argues that the inter-relationships are probably too weak to …

self-help group lending program in rural Bihar, India (Hoffmann et al., 2021) to demonstrate that well-functioning groups …

, India, we find that "gung ho entrepreneurs" (GEs), households who were already running a business before microfinance …

experimental study based on a hope intervention in Oaxaca, Mexico among 601 indigenous women with access to microfinance loans. Our …

experimental intervention among recently banked poor Indian women receiving government cash transfers via direct deposit. Treated … women were provided automated voice calls confirming details of transactions posted to their accounts. The intervention … increased women's knowledge of account balances and trust in their local banking agent. Indicative of improved consumption …

Empowering women and enhancing children's early development are two important goals that are often pursued via … that the program empowered women in various dimensions, including higher labor force participation and employment, higher …