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- Title
Actually how empowering is Microcredit?
- Authors
Mahmud, Simeen
- Abstract
This article re-assesses the effect of microcredit programme participation on women's empowerment by applying an analytical framework that recognizes the conceptual shift in emphasis in the definition of empowerment, from notions of greater well-being of women to notions of women's choice and active agency in the attainment of greater well-being. The author finds that microcredit programme participation has only a limited direct effect in increasing women's access to choice-enhancing resources, but has a much stronger effect in increasing women's ability to exercise agency in intrahousehold processes. Consequently, programme participation is able to increase women's welfare and possibly to reduce male bias in welfare outcomes, particularly in poor households.
- Subjects
WOMEN; POWER (Social sciences); WELFARE economics
- Publication
Development & Change, 2003, Vol 34, Issue 4, p577
- ISSN
0012-155X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1467-7660.00320