Measuring the Effect of a Community-Level Program on Women's Empowerment Outcomes: Evidence from India

Kandpal, Eeshani; Baylis, Kathy; Arends‐Kuenning, Mary

doi:10.1596/1813-9450-6399

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“…In line with that, Kandpal et al (2013), employ primary data from 487 females of rural Uttarakhand (North India) by incorporating snowball sampling to show involvement in Mahila Samakhya enhances ownership of NREGS cards along with a female's ability to go out without consent. The women involvement rate in the community development programme boosts significantly by adding up features such as access to employment, adult education, mobility, political membership, etc.…”

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Women Entrepreneurs and Determinants of Their Success: An Empirical Study

Maity

Sahu

2020

SEDME (Small Enterprises Development, Management & Extensio

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Using a Logistic regression model the present study investigates the important factors that influence on ease of doing business by the women entrepreneurs. The respondents are from the four different backward regions in West Bengal, India. The goodness of fit of the model is checked in terms of the Hosmer–Lemeshow test. Moreover, a large share of the women-owned business is a single person enterprise, generates lower revenues, and is smaller in size. The study shows that most women are engaged in small entrepreneurs to help their families financially. Though, women entrepreneurs are facing challenges of financing and non-cooperation from their family members. Even from non-cooperation from the family, they are engaged in entrepreneurship after managing their households’ work. The level of productivity will be enhanced significantly in case easy access to credit and support received from the family members. The support may be in terms of mental as well by helping in households’ work. Further, the application of the Welch’s t-test shows the non-existence of a significant difference in income level among the two groups, who have faced complexities and who have no complexities into running the entrepreneurship. To improve the socio-economic status of the female counterpart of the society, initiatives from the grassroots level are absolutely essential.

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Women Entrepreneurs and Determinants of Their Success: An Empirical Study

Maity

Sahu

2020

SEDME (Small Enterprises Development, Management & Extensio

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“…The micro credit programmes proliferates the financial resources power and mobility to various places of female beneficiaries in Bangladesh are observed by Pitt et al (2006). The programme pertinent to education designed at community levels exerted positive impact on empowerment outcomes and employment status of beneficiary women (Kandpal, 2013) whilst interventions combined with provision of vocational training and awareness about health and risky behaviors reduces sexual activities, pregnancy among females aged 14-20 and improved income generating activities in Ugenda (Bandiera, 2012) . The Girl Power cash transfer programme in Malawi shows positive and significant role in improving school attendance, increase access to financial resources, decline in teen age pregnancies, improvement in health facilities and decrease in early age marriages (Baird et al, 2013).…”

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Unconditional Cash Transfers and Women Empowerment: The Case of Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) in Pakistan

Iqbal

Padda

Farooq³

2020

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This study has explored the welfare impact of Benazir Income Support Program’s (BISP) unconditional cash transfers on women empowerment. The program was initiated in 2011 by the government of Pakistan. The impact has been computed by using two follow up rounds i.e, 2011 & 2016 where baseline was carried out in 2011 and follow-up round was carried out in 2016. Regression Discontinuity Design approach was used to measure casual effects of the BISP cash transfers on women empowerment by selecting target and control groups based on proxy means test. The overtime impact have been estimated by employing Difference in Difference (DiD) model on panel households from 2011-2016. The study observed that BISP led to improve socio-economic wellbeing of the beneficiary women. It has brought improvement in women mobility and women participation in voting. The important contribution is an improvement in the aspect of socio-economic and political empowerment and women mobility across time and overtime. This showed continues support for longer period brought desired results.

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“…Whereas a lot of studies have been conducted around the world especially for Bangladesh and African countries (Rashid. et al, 2015), Volume VIII Issue 3, September 2017 56 www.scholarshub.net but most studies are being done on Southern India (Garikipati, 2008, Kandpal et al, 2013, Swain et al, 2014, Laksmi, et al, 2013 whereas research articles are scarce in the specific study location. Moreover MFI participation may sometime leads to boost up some qualitative up gradation only like skill enhancement, confidence building rather that sustainable rural development and poverty eradication (Rathiranee and Semasinghe, 2015) or may enhance a few household domain where females were least empowered (Asim, 2009).…”

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“…(2013) studied changes on socio-economic empowerment in the pre and post loan phase. Also Swain, 2006, Kandpal et al (2013, Rathiranee and Semasinghe (2015) Table 8) Finally, to explore the determinants of psychological empowerment, 11 explanatory variables have been selected in the ordered logistic regression model and result summarized in table 8. The results presented in table 8 indicate that among the total 11 explanatory variables 4 have significant influence on women psychological empowerment.…”

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