over 16,500 observations. In the study, clusters were selected in areas Compartamos Banco, a Microfinance institution (MFI … suggests that Microfinance has a significant positive effect on school and food expenditure but no apparent effect on … entrepreneurship. Using regression analysis, a significant positive effect on women's empowerment and its positive effect on total …

This book analyses what microfinance money means to women; and in doing so, it focuses on the perspectives of … individual women and of women-only groups. It explores women's own money management strategies, group dynamics and learning …, and those of women who are members of self-help groups …