The aim of this paper is to analyse the social and economic impact that microfinance programmes have on participant’s lives, particularly on women in the Mediterranean countries, by identifying the changes occurred in the lives of interviewees and of their families from the moment they took part in a microcredit programme. At first we analyse changes occurred in consumption levels, savings behaviour, food and house conditions of beneficiaries; then we investigate the impact on women empowerment through the creation of an index on the changes of women’s conditions
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