This study explores the impact of microcredit on economic, educational, and empowerment levels of women from the … implemented here since the 1980s. The author created a control group from women who had never taken out a microcredit. The study … goods increased in the loan group, the benefits of microcredit on family educational attainment levels and empowerment are …

between microfinance and women's empowerment. This paper contributes by arguing that women empowerment takes place when women … of the Self Help Group (SHG) on women empowerment for 2000 and 2003. The results strongly demonstrate that on average …, there is a significant increase in the women empowerment of the SHG members group. No such significant change is observed …

microenterprises, much higher than market interest rates. But returns were found to be much higher among men than among women, and … indeed were not different from zero for women. In this paper, we explore different explanations for the lower returns among … local areas are important. We do find evidence that women invested the grants differently from men. A smaller share of the …

This paper examines the development of microfinance market from the household perspective as it relates to poverty …

Microfinance programs like Self Help Group Bank linkage program (SHG), aim to empower women through provision of … the latent women empowerment and its latent components (economic factors and financial confidence, managerial control … greater impact on empowering women. Using household survey data on SHG from India, a general structural model is adopted where …

women. This paper argues that considering together discourses of affinity and practices of dowry adds significantly to … understanding of the complex inter-relations of social and economic change. Drawing on data from rural Bangladesh, it emphasises the … masculine provision and protection. Against conventional views that dowry compensates for a perceived weakness in women …

implemented in Matlab, Bangladesh in 1977. Village data from 1974, 1982 and 1996 suggest that program villages experienced extra … nearly two decades. Women in program villages also experienced other benefits: lower child mortality, improved health status … Bangladesh have many dimensions extending well beyond fertility reduction, which do not appear to dissipate after two decades. …

of household income and a composite index of women empowerment, the paper finds evidence of women’s status influencing … food security. By raising the level of food security for some disadvantaged women’s groups female status is also found to …

, especially those related to women and children, have failed to keep pace. This paper contends that the role of women in providing … at resolving the problems faced by women in performing one or other of their roles, may fail to produce expected results … review various aspects of the relationship between women and food security in South Asia, highlight the issues that require …