Microcredit and Women's Empowerment: Have We Been Looking at the Wrong Indicators?
In: Oxford development studies, Band 41, Heft sup1, S. S53-S75
ISSN: 1469-9966
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In: Oxford development studies, Band 41, Heft sup1, S. S53-S75
ISSN: 1469-9966
In: Development and change, Band 43, Heft 3, S. 719-750
ISSN: 1467-7660
ABSTRACT This study examines the impact of microcredit on male and female time use, and draws on this analysis to explore the linkages between credit and women's empowerment. A study of time use can help understand these linkages, because if credit is intended to improve women's livelihoods, it can also be expected to influence the way women allocate their time. Its other advantages are that it does not suffer from much time lag and can be objectively measured. Using household survey data from rural India, the findings show that while microcredit has little impact on women's time use, it helps their husbands move away from wage work (associated with bad pay and low status) to self‐employment. This is because women's loans are typically used to enhance male ownership of the household's productive assets. Further, it is found that it is only women who use loans in self‐managed enterprises who are able to allocate more time to self‐employment. If credit is intended to increase the value of women's work time, it follows that it is not access to loans but use of loans that matters. Ensuring women's control over loan‐created assets must therefore be a critical policy objective.
In: The European journal of development research, Band 21, Heft 3, S. 476-477
ISSN: 1743-9728
In: The European journal of development research, Band 20, Heft 4, S. 629-648
ISSN: 1743-9728
In: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development, Band 36, Heft 12, S. 2620-2642
In: Journal of international development: the journal of the Development Studies Association, Band 19, Heft 8, S. 1165-1166
ISSN: 1099-1328
In: University of Liverpool Management School Research Paper No. 2006/25
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In: Journal of refugee studies, Band 18, Heft 3, S. 340-361
ISSN: 1471-6925
In: Journal of refugee studies, Band 18, Heft 3, S. 340-361
ISSN: 0951-6328
In: Journal of international development: the journal of the Development Studies Association, Band 15, Heft 5, S. 660-661
ISSN: 1099-1328
In: The journal of development studies, Band 58, Heft 12, S. 2625-2627
ISSN: 1743-9140
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In: Journal of international development: the journal of the Development Studies Association, Band 29, Heft 1, S. 32-51
ISSN: 1099-1328
AbstractA number of programmes have recently been initiated to popularise the use of sanitary pads among poor women in developing countries. In this light, we review the prevailing menstrual practices in different contexts across India, as well as the initiatives undertaken to improve sanitary care. We also report findings from a study amongst women in slums of Hyderabad. We find high usage of sanitary pads (56 to 64 percent), suggesting that development initiatives have percolated down to the urban poor. Furthermore, we find that although a large number of cloth users (57 percent) are willing to change practice, an overwhelming number of them (94 percent) elicit a preference for re‐usable cloth pads. This suggests a disengagement with public policy discourses on menstrual care that have so far focused singularly on promotion of sanitary pads. We draw upon these results to comment on better sanitary care for women slum dwellers in a rapidly urbanising context. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
In: Journal of international development: the journal of the Development Studies Association, Band 24, Heft 7, S. 841-864
ISSN: 0954-1748