inclusion programs on poor households represented by women relative to that represented by men?” By constructing a good … effect was 8.40% for women as against 3.97% for men, indicating that the gender of participating poor undoubtedly affects the …

a tool for poverty alleviation and lifting the poor, particularly women, out of poverty. The impact of microcredit …The empowerment of women is one of crucial development issues. This is due to the fact that women appear to form the … program, however, is not limited to improving income of poor women. What is more important is that microcredit program has …

This study aims to identify the effects of Juntos, the conditional cash transfer program in Peru, on women …'s empowerment. Although the program does not envisage women's welfare as an objective per se, women play a key role as they are the … approach (ENDES and Young Lives Study), the study finds positive significant effects on women's empowerment, specifically on …

-effective way to identify income-poor beneficiaries of targeted anti-poverty programs. However, their usefulness depends on whether …-parametric regression- techniques, we show that the resulting leakage can largely be confined to the non-poor close to the poverty line …. However, simulating the effect on poverty measures of a uniform transfer to beneficiaries across inclusion rates suggests that …