Does Self Help Group Participation Lead to Asset Creation?

Swain, Ranjula Bali; Varghese, Adel

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2009.03.006

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“…Ahmed, 2000 Ahmed, 2005Alam, 2012Amin, 1995Amin, 2001Augsburg, 2006Brannen, 2010Chemin, 2008Copestake, 2002Deininger, 2009Deininger, 2013 De La Cruz, Desai, 2011Diagne, 2001Dunn, 2001Erulkar,2005 Husain, 2010 Islam, 2011Karlan, 2010Khandker, 2005Kondo, 2008Lakwo, 2006McKernan, 2002Montgomery, 2005Morduch, 1998Nanda, 1999Nanor, 2008Odek, 2009PiƩ, 1999Rahman, 2010Sharif, 2004Sherman, 2010Shimamura, 2010Shirazi, 2009Swain, 2009Swendeman, 2009Tarozzi, 2015Wakoko, 2003Zeller, 2011…”

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Impact of financial inclusion in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review of reviews

Duvendack¹,

Mader²

2019

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| PLAIN LANGUAGE SUMMARY | Financial inclusion interventions have very small and inconsistent impactsA wide range of financial inclusion programmes seek to increase poor people's access to financial services to enhance the welfare of poor and low-income households in low-and middle-income countries. The impacts of financial inclusion interventions are small and variable.Although some services have some positive effects for some people, overall financial inclusion may be no better than comparable alternatives, such as graduation or livelihoods interventions. | What is this review about?Financial inclusion programmes seek to increase access to financial services such as credit, savings, insurance and money transfers and so allow poor and low-income households in low-and middle-income countries to enhance their welfare, grasp opportunities, mitigate shocks, and ultimately escape poverty. This systematic review of reviews assesses the evidence on economic, social, behavioural and gender-related outcomes from financial inclusion. 1.3 | What are the main findings of this review? 1.3.1 | What studies are included? This review includes studies that synthesise the findings of other studies (meta-studies) regarding the impacts of a range of financial inclusion interventions on economic, social, gender and behavioural outcomes. A total of 32 such meta-studies were identified, of which 11 were of sufficient methodological quality to be included in the final analysis. The review examined meta-studies from 2010 onwards that spanned the globe in terms of geographical coverage.Impacts are more likely to be positive than negative, but the effects vary, are often mixed, and appear not to be transformative in scope or scale, as they largely occur in the early stages of the causal chain of effects. Overall, the effects of financial services on core economic poverty indicators such as incomes, assets or spending, and on health status and other social outcomes, are small and inconsistent. Moreover, there is no evidence for meaningful behaviour-change outcomes leading to further positive effects.The effects of financial services on women's empowerment appear to be generally positive, but they depend upon programme features which are often only peripheral or unrelated to the financial service What is the aim of this review?This systematic review of reviews systematically collects and appraises all of the existing meta-studies-that is systematic reviews and meta-analyses-of the impact of financial inclusion.The authors first analyse the strength of the methods used in those meta-studies, then synthesize the findings from those that are of a sufficient quality, and finally, report the implications for policy, programming, practice and further research arising from the evidence. Eleven studies are included in the analysis.---

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Impact of financial inclusion in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review of reviews

Duvendack¹,

Mader²

2019

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“…The most appropriate method to address the question would be by employing an experimental design. Since it is just not possible to control all the factors while measuring the impact of microcredit (Hulme, 2000), therefore, full experimental approach is not feasible for assessing the impact of microcredit programs (see also Khandker and Pitt, 1998;Swain and Varghese, 2009;Montgomery and Weiss, 2011). This study uses a quasi-experimental approach to measure the impact of microcredit.…”

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Examining the Effect of Amanah Ikhtiar Malaysia’s Microcredit Program on Microenterprise Assets in Rural Malaysia

Mamun¹,

Adaikalam²,

Mazumder³

2012

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Microenterprise often considered as an antecedent for generating income and employment, which leads to a decline in overall poverty rate and other aspects of sustainable socio-economic development. The objective of this study is to identify the impact of Amanah Ikhtiar Malaysia's (AIM) microcredit program on microenterprise assets owned by poor women in rural Peninsular Malaysia. In order to advance our understanding on the topic, contribute to the existing literature and to obtain the above mentioned objective, we employed a cross sectional design with stratified random sampling method. Data was collected from 281 rural clients selected from seven branches in five states in Peninsular Malaysia. Findings showed that the current market value of livestock's, agricultural/production equipments, agricultural stock/raw materials, enterprise assets and motor vehicles owned by old client respondents were relatively higher than that of new client respondents. Study also revealed that the mean market value of microenterprise assets owned by old clients is significantly higher than that of new clients. Therefore, there is a need to give emphasis on providing adequate training, favorable environment, and flexible and diversified loan programs in order to promote sustainable microenterprise development.

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“…Seven studies report increased income for SHG members from 16 Colbourn et al, 2013;Houweling et al, 2013;Rath et al, 2010;Roy et al, 2013;Tripathy et al, 2010. 17 Positive: Anderson and Baland, 2002;Caro, Pangare and Manfre, 2013;Colbourn et al, 2013;Dagnelie and LeMay-Boucher, 2008;de Hoop et al, 2014;Deininger and Liu, 2009;Desai and Joshi, 2012;Greaney et al, 2013;Holvoet, 2005;Odek et al, 2009;Reddy and Manak, 2005;Swain et al, 2009;Swain, 2012;Tesoriero, 2006;Van Rompay et al, 2008. Mixed: Molyneux et al, 2007Sinha et al, 2006.…”

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“… Anderson and Baland, ; Bhoj, Bardhan, and Kumar, ; Caro, Pangare and Manfre, ; Dagnelie and LeMay‐Boucher, ; Desai and Joshi, 2012; Sinha et al., ; Swain and Varghese, . …”

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Delivering development? Evidence on self‐help groups as development intermediaries in South Asia and Africa

Gugerty

Biscaye

Anderson

2018

Development Policy Review

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Donors and governments increasingly seek to deliver development projects through community‐based organizations such as self‐help groups (SHGs), but little is known about the effectiveness of such arrangements. This article briefly summarizes hypotheses regarding the effectiveness of interventions using SHGs and presents the results of an evidence review on the impacts of interventions delivered through SHGs on health, finance, agriculture and empowerment outcomes in South Asia and sub‐Saharan Africa. Though the impacts of SHG‐based interventions are generally positive, the evidence base is limited and does not generally test whether alternative delivery mechanisms might be more effective.

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Does Self Help Group Participation Lead to Asset Creation?

Cited by 76 publications

References 6 publications

Impact of financial inclusion in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review of reviews

Impact of financial inclusion in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review of reviews

Examining the Effect of Amanah Ikhtiar Malaysia’s Microcredit Program on Microenterprise Assets in Rural Malaysia

Delivering development? Evidence on self‐help groups as development intermediaries in South Asia and Africa

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