Microcredit on Women Enpowerment
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This article examines the role of gender in the use of digital finance in Kenya, including the well-known case of mobile money but also the emerging use of smartphone apps, payment tills, digital credit services, and digital fund-raising... more
Our paper explores how poor rural households in India are increasingly accumulating debt through micro-finance initiatives channelled through local self-help groups (SHGs). The aim of micro-finance and SHGs is to provide a cheap source of... more
The study explores and evaluates the women‟s experiences with microcredit facility for the purpose of women empowerment. While there is a mutual understanding and general consensus on closer nexus between women empowerment and... more
This paper examines the impact of microfinance on some selected women borrower respondents of Bangladesh, who have been selected through a systematic random survey process. This is a quantitative research based on primary and secondary... more
Türkiye ekonomisinde öncelikli çözülmesi gereken sorunların başında kadınların istihdama katılım oranlarındaki yetersizlik gelmektedir. Bu zamana kadar gerek devlet tarafından gerekse özel sektör tarafından uygulanan kadın istihdamını... more
Microfinance institutions (MFIs) in the Philippines have gained a reputation for operating as a for-profit institution reaching the poor through micro-lending. The problem or issue which the study addresses is to determine how MFIs in the... more
Abstract – Credit is one of the most crucial inputs in the process of development. By extending small loans to poor individuals, microcredit, specially SHGs enables its borrowers to take up income earning activities that lead to a series... more
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) call for significant action on health by 2030 that includes, interalia, to ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health-care services, including for family planning, information and... more
Gender inequalities are of the main problems in almost every society. Like all other parts of the system, economic and business environment haven't attempted sufficiently in struggling with this issue. When these inequalities combined... more
Introductory note: This paper is an earlier version--now including a number of updates and revisions-- of what became a chapter in my 2010 book "Contemporary Feminist Theory and Activism: Six Global Issues," Broadview. It's my view that... more
Microcredit has come under severe academic criticism in recent years, but the diversity of local practices and discourses that respond to and critique microcredit is still under-examined. By exploring emergent entrepreneurial practices... more
Micro-credit is the practice of making small loans to people with little or no collateral to help sustain and develop self-employment initiatives. It has been hailed as a tool for poverty alleviation, economic growth, community... more
One of the major goals of the seventh five-year plan of Bangladesh is to achieve gender equality and women's empowerment in all spheres of life. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on gender equality and women's empowerment also have... more
Özet Mikrofinans kuruluşları yoksullukla mücadelede finansal kaynakları farklı bir yöntemle yoksullara ulaştırarak toplumsal sorumluluklarını yerine getirmektedirler. Bu çalışmada mikrofinans kuruluşlarının çalışma sistemleri anlatılmakta... more