How microfinance empowers women in Côte d’Ivoire

Fofana, Namizata Binaté; Antonides, Gerrit; Niehof, A.; Ophem, J.A.C. van

doi:10.1007/s11150-015-9280-2

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“…Grossbard-Shechtman (1993) for a comprehensive review). Examples of such factors are (i) assets and landownership (Grossbard-Shechtman, 1982;Allendorf, 2007), (ii) (gap in) employment status, wage/income and lifetime earnings (Sathar and Kazi, 1997;Elder and Rudolph, 2003;Woolley, 2003;Friedberg and Webb, 2006;Bertocchi et al, 2014), (iii) financial knowledge and the recipient of microcredit (Elder and Rudolph, 2003;Binaté Fofana et al, 2015), (iv) education and female-male education gap (Elder and Rudolph, 2003;Lührmann and Maurer, 2008;Bertocchi et al, 2014). Next, it has also been documented that household demographics and the socio-cultural context matters.…”

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The power of the family: kinship and intra-household decision making in rural Burundi

2016

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In this paper we show that in rural Burundi the characteristics of the female's kinship are highly correlated with female's bargaining power, as proxied by her decision-making power. First, a female whose own immediate family is at least as rich as her husband's counterpart enjoys a greater say over children-and asset-related decision-making. Second, the size, relative wealth and proximity of the extended family also matter. Third, kinship characteristics prove to be more important than (standard) individual and household characteristics. Finally, we also show that the female's say over asset-related decisionmaking is positively associated with males' education, more than with female's education per se. All these correlation patterns can inform policies aiming at empowering women or targeting children through women's empowerment.

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The power of the family: kinship and intra-household decision making in rural Burundi

2016

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“…Use of logistic regression (Cramer, 2003) was consistent to previous research (Bekele & Muchie, 2009;Binaté Fofana, Antonides, Niehof, & van Ophem, 2015;Garrity & Martin, 2018;Khatun, 2017;Lavoori & Paramanik, 2014;Murshid & Ball, 2018;Nawaz, 2019;Zafarullah & Nawaz, 2019). Z test examined the significance of the relationships between microfinance program participation and empowerment indicators.…”

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Empowerment of the Extreme Poor Women through Microfinance: Evidence from Northern Part of Bangladesh

Ahmed¹,

Rahman

Khatun

2020

Journal of Contemporary Research in Social Sciences

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Women's empowerment is a crucial enabler for alleviating poverty. Microfinance is considered as a key tool for empowering women by improving access to economic and social activities. This study explores the role of microfinance for economic and social empowerment of the rural extreme poor women using primary data collected from Rangpur division of Bangladesh. Economic and social empowerment are measured using three and four indicators, respectively. Effectiveness of microfinance programs are examined using simple comparison as well as statistical analysis. Result shows that overall women's empowerment condition is not satisfactory in the study area. However, microfinance participants enjoy relatively more economic and social empowerment than non-participants. The study also reveals that a significant use of microcredit empower the rural women significantly. Statistical analysis shows that almost all indicators are positively and significantly related to microfinance programs. More emphasis should be put on using borrowed money effectively by the program participants for income generating activities in order to make the poor women empowered.

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“…However, in relation to food and nutrition security women's empowerment is given an instrumentalist twist; it is allegedly good for household food security and family, especially children's, nutrition. Much in the same way as women's access to micro finance is expected to help women meet their practical gender needs for the benefit of their families (Binaté Fofana et al 2015).…”

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