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Evaluation of an Adolescent Development Program for Girls in Tanzania

Buehren, Niklas - 2017

This paper evaluates a program targeted to adolescent girls in Tanzania that aims to empower them economically as well as socially. The program was found to be highly successful in Uganda in terms of economic, health, and social outcomes. In contrast, this evaluation finds that the program did...

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Measuring Women's Agency

Donald, Aletheia Amalia - 2017

equality and the empowerment of women. Yet, existing frameworks for women's agency measurement -- both disorganized and partial …

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Are Caste Categories Misleading? The Relationship between Gender and Jati in Three Indian States

Joshi, Shareen - 2017

This paper examines the relationship between caste and gender inequality in three states in India. When households are grouped using conventional, government-defined categories of caste the paper finds patterns that are consistent with existing literature: lower-caste women are more likely to...

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In the Mind, the Household, or the Market? Concepts and Measurement of Women's Economic Empowerment

Fox, Louise - 2017

The concept of empowerment is now widely used in several disciplines to characterize the states and social processes of … research by economists, primarily involving impact evaluation, has measured empowerment as women's influence over household … expenditures. This is a very narrow sliver of empowerment; not surprisingly, it is not well correlated with other economic or …

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Oral Democracy and Women?S Oratory Competency in Indian Village Assemblies : A Qualitative Analysis

Sanyal, Paromita - 2017

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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Job Opportunities Along the Rural-Urban Gradation and Female Labor Force Participation in India

Chatterjee, Urmila - 2017

lower, this alleged income effect does not bode well for the empowerment of women as India develops. This paper argues that …

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

Casini, Paolo - 2017

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 - 2017

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

Ban, Radu - 2017

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Promoting Women's Economic Empowerment : What Works?

Buvinic, Mayra - 2017

A review of rigorous evaluations of interventions that seek to empower women economically shows that the same class of interventions has significantly different outcomes depending on the client. Capital alone, as a small cash loan or grant, is not sufficient to grow women-owned subsistence-level...

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