Improving the livelihoods of poor households and transitioning more women back to the labor force is a major challenge … in South Asia. Self-employment promoted through women's groups has often been cited as a promising intervention towards … achieve its primary objective of improving livelihoods by transitioning more women into work. The program has also expanded …

It is a challenge to empower women in particular the rural women. Informal business in rural area can help to meet this … challenge. Keeping in view the importance of the research work on women empowerment, the present study aims to discuss aspects … of psychological empowerment through informal business in Gondar, Ethiopia. Simple Random sampling technique was applied …

livelihood constraints of the rural women they set out to support. This is a failing that might be due to the omission of women … Upper East and Northern Regions in Ghana, we explored women and men’s notions of the processes and outcomes of empowerment …. We began by understanding the basis of women’s disempowerment and confirmed its location within agricultural production …

, loans, and insurance to poor people especially women living in both urban and rural settings who are not able to obtain such … services from the formal financial sector. The microfinance empowered rural women in numerous parts of their life. The … present research work is carried out to analyze the impact of microfinance services on the empowerment of rural women …