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 …, especially for government programs like the National Rural Livelihoods Mission in India. This study aims to provide empirical …

equation model. Our results reveal that in the southern states of India empowerment of women takes place through economic … factors. For the other states, we find a significant correlation between women empowerment and autonomy in women's decision …We examine how the impact on women empowerment varies with respect to the location and type of group linkage of the …

Microfinance programs like Self Help Group Bank linkage program (SHG), aim to empower women through provision of … greater impact on empowering women. Using household survey data on SHG from India, a general structural model is adopted where … the most significant factors in empowering women. -- microfinance ; impact ; women empowerment …