Reducing gender inequality in economic opportunities is considered valuable in its own
right and a critical element in ending poverty and boosting economic prosperity. Does the …

Purpose Women empowerment becomes an important policy discussion in development
economics and modernization theory. The empowerment of women can lead to an increase …

Government programs supporting self help groups (SHGs) generally target women on the
assumption that doing so enhances women's decision-making. The empirical evidence …

Microfinance contracts typically require a fixed repayment schedule that, while ensuring
repayment discipline, may inhibit entrepreneurship and business growth. In this article, I …

Microfinance groups are a prominent source of small-scale rural credit in many developing
countries. In India, evidence of the impact of the now ubiquitous women-only savings and …

Microfinance is widely accepted as an important tool for alleviating poverty. Self-help group
(SHG) programme has emerged as the primary source of microfinance that deals with a …

Purpose The paper identifies the influence of socio-economic factors and livelihood training
in stimulating micro-entrepreneurship among women self-help group (SHG) members …

Livelihoods and microfinance programs for women often show reduced impacts after scale-
up. Yet, program scale-up may reduce average per capita costs and maintain cost …

We exploit an expansion in social protection to middle-income households to provide
evidence on how middle-income households cope with economic shocks and how to build …

We present experimental evidence on the efficacy of a performance-based incentive in
motivating elected politicians to improve delivery of a large-scale public program in India …