greater impact on empowering women. Using household survey data on SHG from India, a general structural model is adopted where …Microfinance programs like Self Help Group Bank linkage program (SHG), aim to empower women through provision of … the latent women empowerment and its latent components (economic factors and financial confidence, managerial control …

support groups, literacy camps, adult education classes, and vocational training for rural women in several states of India …This paper uses primary data from rural north India to show that participation in a community-level female empowerment … disentangle the program's mechanisms, separately considering its effect on women who work, and those who do not work but whose …

The paper explores whether one of the largest programs in the world for women's empowerment and rural livelihoods, the … Indira Kranti Patham in Andhra Pradesh, India, has had an impact on the economic and social wellbeing of households that …), invest in education, and increase total expenditures (for the poorest and poor). Women who participated in the program had …