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Labor and welfare impacts of a large-scale livelihoods program : quasi-experimental evidence from India

Pandey, Vivek; Gupta, Abhishek; Gupta, Shivani - 2019

Improving the livelihoods of poor households and transitioning more women back to the labor force is a major challenge in South Asia. Self-employment promoted through women's groups has often been cited as a promising intervention towards this end. However, the evidence on the impact of such...

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Combining growth and gender diagnostics for the benefit of both

Ianchovichina, Elena; Leipziger, Danny M. - 2019

Women's economic empowerment is not a new issue; nevertheless, it continues to challenge governments and development … gender gaps, the paper uses the approach to identify those constraints to women's economic empowerment that align with …

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The economic lives of young women in the time of Ebola : lessons from an empowerment program

Bandiera, Oriana; Buehren, Niklas; Goldstein, Markus P.; … - 2019

This paper evaluates an intervention to raise young women's economic empowerment in Sierra Leone, where women …

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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; Gonzalez, Rolando; Dang, … - 2019

This paper investigates a women's self-help group program with more than 1.5 million participants in one of the poorest rural areas of Northern India. The program has four streams of activity in micro-savings, agricultural enterprise training, health and nutrition education, and political...

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Social accountability and service delivery : experimental evidence from Uganda

Fiala, Nathan; Premand, Patrick - 2018

Corruption and mismanagement of public resources can affect the quality of government services and undermine growth. Can citizens in poor communities be empowered to demand better-quality public investments? This paper looks at whether providing social accountability training and information on...

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Voices to Choices : Bangladesh's Journey in Women's Economic Empowerment

Solotaroff, Jennifer L. - 2009

economic progress. Yet women's economic engagement and empowerment are subdued, as they cannot make sufficient choices for … lie ahead for women's economic empowerment. This book is an important contribution to the knowledge on interventions …. There is an urgent need to deepen researched understanding of the multidimensional pathways of women's economic empowerment …

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Women Economic Empowerment Study

World Bank Group - 2018

The Women Economic Empowerment report outlines the factors contributing to the persistently low economic participation …

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Oral Democracy and Women's Oratory Competency in Indian Village Assemblies : A Qualitative Analysis

Sanyal, Paromita - 2015

In democracies, innovative political institutions have opened up scope for direct public participation often in the form of talk: citizens talking to the state and mutual talk among citizens on matters concerning community development. A prominent example is the Indian gram sabha, or village...

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Public Good Provision in Indian Rural Areas : The Returns to Collective Action by Microfinance Groups

Casini, Paolo - 2015

Self-help groups (SHGs) are the most common form of microfinance in India. The authors provide evidence that SHGs, composed of women only, undertake collective actions for the provision of public goods within village communities. Using a theoretical model, this paper shows that an elected...

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Self-Help Groups, Savings and Social Capital : Evidence from a Field Experiment in Cambodia

Ban, Radu - 2015

This paper studies how self-help groups-village-based organizations designed to encourage savings, household production and social cohesion among the poor-can promote economic and social capital. The paper uses survey data and a wide array of social capital measures to assess the impact of a...

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