Multiple Meanings of Money: How Women See Microfinance by Smita Premchander, V. Prameela, M. Chidambaranathan, L …

The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) is a new survey-based index designed to measure the empowerment …, agency, and inclusion of women in the agricultural sector. The WEAI was initially developed as a tool to reflect womenâ …€™s empowerment that may result from the United States government’s Feed the Future Initiative, which commissioned the development …

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) baseline survey … factors that might affect empowerment and outcomes that might result from empowerment. The analysis includes thirteen …

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 …

for women's empowerment. Available results of impact studies call for circumspection; microfinance can free women from …'s capability framework approach, exploring a relevant empirical issue: microfinance. Microfinance appears more and more as a tool … certain links of dependence. But microfinance can also forge new kinds of dependence and subordination, thereby strengthening …

interventions, and microfinance programs—on women’s empowerment, nutrition, or both. …This paper starts by reflecting on the concept and measurement of women’s empowerment and then reviews some of the …

empowerment delivered mixed results. In order to explore whether microfinance influences empowerment, the paper compares women in …Does microfinance support the empowerment of female borrowers? Results of studies analyzing microfinance and … higher loan cycles of a Pakistani microfinance institution with those in the first loan cycle regarding their empowerment …

In the microfinance industry the idea of “empowerment” is often valued as a means to encourage female emancipation from … male domination. This paper’s main purpose is to draw on women’s testimonies and narratives to highlight the fundamental … importance within these processes of women’s relationships with one another, both in terms of female subjectivity and agency …

India in this regard and recommends certain necessary steps in order to consolidate the process of linking MFIs with other … applicable to India as well as other developing countries facing similar situation. …