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Micro-finance and the empowerment of women : a review of the key issues
Mayoux, Linda - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 2000
Reviews the evidence about the link between access to microfinance and women's empowerment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010966858
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Informal finance in the informal economy : promoting decent work among the working poor
Aliber, Michael - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 2002
Based mainly on a comparative study of informal finance in Uganda and India in 2001. Investigates sources of finance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010967221
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Money Matters: Reaching Women Microentrepreneurs with Financial Services Title: Dinero que cuenta: Servicios financieros al alcance de la mujer microempresaria
Almeyda-Stemper, Gloria - Inter-American Development Bank
For women microentrepreneurs, access to financial services matters. It is critical to their ability to make productive … investments in their businesses. As part of IDB's efforts to strengthen women's roles in economic development, the Women in … Development Unit undertook a study to analyze the kinds of financial services available to women microentrepreneurs. It examined …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943529
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Money Matters: Reaching Women Microentrepreneurs with Financial Services Title: Dinero que cuenta: Servicios financieros al alcance de la mujer microempresaria
Almeyda-Stemper, Gloria - Inter-American Development Bank
For women microentrepreneurs, access to financial services matters. It is critical to their ability to make productive … investments in their businesses. As part of IDB's efforts to strengthen women's roles in economic development, the Women in … Development Unit undertook a study to analyze the kinds of financial services available to women microentrepreneurs. It examined …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010772455
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Access and Utilisation of Health Care Services in Urban Low-income Settlements in Surat, India
Acharya, Akash - eSocialSciences - 2008
This paper investigates a range of aspects including socio economic status,morality, morbidity requiring inpatient as well as outpatient care, health care-seeking behavior etc.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487659
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Book Review: Microfinance-Is it a means of Empowering Women?
Das, Sanchita; Sen, Anwesha - eSocialSciences - 2010
Multiple Meanings of Money: How Women See Microfinance by Smita Premchander, V. Prameela, M. Chidambaranathan, L …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009250471
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Micro credit in India: an overview
Sankaran, Mohanan - In: World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and … 1 (2005) 1, pp. 91-100
The present paper reviews origin, development and growth of the micro credit programme in India. The National Bank for … Agriculture and Rural Development in India launched its pilot phase of the Self Help Group Bank Linkage programme in 1992. Self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008564357
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Micro credit in India: an overview
Sankaran, Mohanan - In: World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and … 1 (2005) 1, pp. 91-100
The present paper reviews origin, development and growth of the micro credit programme in India. The National Bank for … Agriculture and Rural Development in India launched its pilot phase of the Self Help Group Bank Linkage programme in 1992. Self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005753535
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Employment-conditional tax credit and benefit systems
Ochel, Wolfgang - In: CESifo Forum 1 (2000) 3, pp. 35-41
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004998698
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Informal micro-finance schemes : the case of funeral insurance in South Africa
Roth, Jimmy - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 2000
Based on a study carried out in the Grahamstown township, examines means available for obtaining the cash required to finance a funeral. Compares and evaluates four types of funeral insurance providers: formal assistance insurers, formal friendly societies and informal non-profit and for-profit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010965789