In developing countries, women’s empowerment is a major concern. Several efforts were made to tackle this issue as the … aims of poverty reduction and development cannot be achieved without giving attention to women’s empowerment. Over the past … particularly to empower women. Resultantly, a huge number of studies focus on the relationships between MFI and women empowerment …

This paper offers an evaluation of a supported women's self help program with over 1.5 million participants in one of … capabilities across a range of dimensions are then developed for some 6000 women and used to estimate a number of propensity score …-strand programs can help to explain the paradox as to why nearly 100 million women (in India alone) have participated in self help …