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Under-Savers Anonymous : Evidence on Self-Help Groups and Peer Pressure as a Savings Commitment Device

Kast, Felipe - 2012

We test the effectiveness of self-help peer groups as a commitment device for precautionary savings, through two randomized field experiments among 2,687 microentrepreneurs in Chile. The first experiment finds that self-help peer groups are a powerful tool to increase savings (the number of...

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Self-Help Groups a Blessing for Women Entrepreneurs – Myth or Reality

Fazalbhoy, Sabiha - 2017

as well. Women entrepreneurs may be defined as the women or a group of women who initiate, organize and operate a …-help groups in promoting women entrepreneurs. Methodology used is secondary data published in books, articles in Journals …

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Promoting Women's Economic Empowerment : What Works?

Buvinic, Mayra - 2017

A review of rigorous evaluations of interventions that seek to empower women economically shows that the same class of interventions has significantly different outcomes depending on the client. Capital alone, as a small cash loan or grant, is not sufficient to grow women-owned subsistence-level...

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The Impact of Micro Credit on Women Entrepreneurs Towards Their Empowerment : A Study on SHGs in Rural RR District of Telangana

Janaki, T. V. - 2014

Women empowerment encompasses a wide range of interpretations right from seeing it as the means by which individuals … decades of 20th century world intelligentsia recognized the role of women empowerment in the development agenda and World Bank … microfinance and is regarded as ‘magical wand' of women empowerment. SHG (Self Help Groups) Federations is a development over it …

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Community Based Women Entrepreneurship : Reappraisal of Self Help Group

Kar, Brajaballav - 2014

There is a radical undercurrent of socio-economic transformation in Odisha. Women Self Help Groups as entrepreneurial organization have started contributing to their own cause and to the economy. Women entrepreneurship has many interwoven dimensions and hence presents many challenges. This...

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Promoting women's economic empowerment in the COVID-19 context

O'Donnell, Megan; Buvinić, Mayra; Kenny, Charles; … - 2021

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Women's economic empowerment in Vietnam : performance and constraints of female-led manufacturing SMEs

Minh Tam T. Bui; Trinh Quang Long - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 14 (2021) 6, pp. 1-17

This paper identifies whether there was a performance difference among micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) led by men and by women in Vietnam during the period 2005-2013 and aims to provide explanations for the differences, if any, in various performance indicators. The paper adopts a...

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Entrepreneurship and innovation emancipation among women entrepreneurs in developing countries

Al Matroushi, Huda; Jabeen, Fauzia; Farouk, Sherine; Al … - In: The Emerald handbook of women and entrepreneurship in …, (pp. 13-34). 2021

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Employees' psychological characteristics and sustainable leadership in firms with high and low entrepreneurial orientation

Durst, Susanne; Chowdhury, Farzana; Davila, Andrès; … - In: Journal of small business strategy 31 (2021) 3, pp. 59-71

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Challenging the entrepreneurial discourse around women home-based workers' empowerment

Huq, Afreen; Delaney, Annie; Debney, Ben - In: The economic and labour relations review : ELRR 33 (2022) 2, pp. 308-328

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