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Female advantage? : management and financial performance in microfinance

Sigurður Guðjónsson; Kari Kristinsson; Haukur Freyr … - In: Verslas : teorija ir praktika : Vilniaus Gedimino … 21 (2020) 1, pp. 83-91

The purpose of the article is to investigate whether female presence in microfinance institutions' management team, i … officers improve financial performance in microfinance, while a higher proportion of female board members does not. Our results … indicate that a major contributor to the financial sustainability of microfinance institutions is having a higher rate of women …

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Microinsurance Decisions : Gendered Evidence from Rural Bangladesh

Clarke, Daniel; Kumar, Neha - 2015

Most index-based insurance products have been developed without giving explicit attention to gender. However, there is ample evidence that shocks affect men and women differently and that they allocate resources in different ways. In Bangladesh it is often assumed that women are less involved in...

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To invest or not to invest in sanitation : the role of intra-household gender differences in perceptions and bargaining power

Augsburg, Britta; Malde, Bansi; Olorenshaw, Harriet; … - 2023

We exploit novel data collected within a randomized controlled trial of a sanitation microcredit intervention to study how intra-household gender differences in perceptions of costs and benefits of sanitation impact investment decisions. We show that — as long as the wife is involved in...

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To invest or not to invest in sanitation : the role of intra-household gender differences in perceptions and bargaining power

Augsburg, Britta; Malde, Bansi; Olorenshaw, Harriet; … - 2021

We exploit novel data collected within a randomised controlled trial of a sanitation microcredit intervention to study how intra-household gender diﬀerences in perceptions of costs and beneﬁts of sanitation impact investment decisions. We show that – as long as the wife is involved in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012801992

Women Leaders and Social Performance : Evidence from Financial Cooperatives in Senegal

Périlleux, Anaïs - 2017

How do women leaders such as board members and top managers influence the social performance of organizations? This paper addresses the question by exploiting a unique database from a Senegalese network of 36 financial cooperatives. We scrutinize the loan-granting decisions, made jointly by the...

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Alternative strategies of for-profit, not-for-profit and state-owned Nepalese microfinance institutions for poverty alleviation and women empowerment

Dhungana, Bharat Ram; Chapagain, Ramkrishna; Ashta, Arvind - In: Cogent economics & finance 11 (2023) 2, pp. 1-24

Microfinance is the provision of financial services to disadvantaged people and the financially excluded, often with a … social mission of poverty alleviation and women empowerment. There are many different forms of microfinance institutions …

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Economic or non-economic factors: What empowers women?

Swain, Ranjula Bali; Wallentin, Fang Yang - 2008

Microfinance programs like Self Help Group Bank linkage program (SHG), aim to empower women through provision of …

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Comparative Study of Effects of Self Help Groups on Women Empowerment- A Case Study of JEEViKA

Kumar, Naveen - 2021

This paper aims to compare the changes in different socio-economic factors SHGs Women and Non- SHGs Women. Three main dimensions had been assessed in this paper i.e. loan analysis, savings pattern and empowerment. We found that SHGs women have higher score in Average Women Empowerment Index than...

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The Impact of Microcredit on Women-owned Small and Medium Enterprises : Evidence from Kenya

Osa Ouma, Clemencia - 2014

Microcredit is a crucial tool for economic empowerment of women. In Kenya, the microcredit industry has supported more than 3 million small and medium enterprises for close to 30 years. Kenya Women Finance Trust is a leading microcredit institution dealing exclusively with financing needs of...

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The Effect of Gender Disparities and COVID-19 on the Time to Repay of Microfinance Loans : Evidence from Mexico

Bátiz-Zuk, Enrique; González Holden, Alexa - 2022

This paper investigates how gender disparities affect the time to default of both group and individual micro-finance … loans. We also document and control for the effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on micro-finance loan borrower’s time to repay …

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