This paper examines the effects of men's and women's participation in group-based micro-credit programs on a large set … of qualitative responses to questions that characterize women's autonomy and gender relations within the household. The … data come from a special survey carried out in rural Bangladesh in 1998-99. The results are consistent with the view that …

Microfinance is often criticized for not adequately addressing seasonality and hard-core poverty. In Bangladesh, a …