PROTOCOL: The effects of microcredit on women's control over household spending in developing countries

Vaessen, Jos; Bastiaensen, Johan; Bonilla, Sara; Holvoet, Nathalie; Leeuw, Frans L.; Lukach, Ruslan; Rivas, Ana María Tobío

doi:10.1002/cl2.87

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“…None-the-less we have stopped short of a full statistical meta-analysis of results in which numerical measures of impacts are combined and have purposefully reported findings using narrative synthesis. Others have gone further and are currently undertaking full statistical meta-analysis of some of this same literature (Vaessen et al, 2010). While the condensing of results in this paper may for some appear to have gone too far, it is inherent within the nature of systematic review methodology and, as such, this paper provides a valuable case study of one way in which this approach is being used in international development.…”

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confidence: 98%

The Impact of Microfinance in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review of the Evidence

Rooyen¹,

Stewart²,

Wet³

2012

World Development

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Microfinance is seen as a key development tool, and despite the current deepening crisis within the industry, it continues to grow in sub-Saharan Africa. We systematically reviewed the evidence of the impacts of micro-credit and micro-savings on poor people in sub-Saharan Africa. We considered impacts on income, savings, expenditure, and the accumulation of assets, as well as non-financial outcomes including health, nutrition, food security, education, child labor, women's empowerment, housing, job creation, and social cohesion. The available evidence shows that microfinance does harm, as well as good, to the livelihoods of the poor.

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The Impact of Microfinance in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review of the Evidence

Rooyen¹,

Stewart²,

Wet³

2012

World Development

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281

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“…Others cover specific interventions, such as microcredit (e.g., Vaessen et al, 2014), formal banking services (Pande, Cole, Sivasankaran, Bastian, & Wendel, 2012), microenterprise (e.g., Grimm & Paffhausen, 2015), microsavings and microleasing and microinsurance (Cole, Bastian, Vyas, Wendel, & Stein, 2012). Some systematic reviews focus on particular populations, such as Sub-Saharan African recipients (e.g., Stewart, van Rooyen, Dickson, Majoro, & de Wet, 2010), particular methods of providing financial services, such as SHGs (e.g., Brody et al, 2015) or particular outcomes, such as health (e.g., Leatherman, Metcalfe, Geissler, & Dunford, 2012) or empowerment (Brody et al, 2015;Vaessen et al, 2014). The systematic reviews also differ by focus, many covering effectiveness evidence, but others incorporating participant views (e.g., Brody et al, 2015;Peters, Lockwood, Munn, Moola, & Mishra, 2016) and barriers or enablers of uptake and effectiveness (e.g., Panda et al, 2016) including innovations in information and communications technology (e.g., Gurman, Rubin, & Roess, 2012;Jennings & Gagliardi, 2013;Lee et al, 2016;Sondaal et al, 2015).…”

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“…Hence, many of the meta-studies in our study sample have adopted a narrative synthesis approach to deal with the methodological diversity of their included primary studies (e.g., Duvendack et al, 2011;Stewart et al, 2010Stewart et al, , 2012. In very few cases, a combination of qualitative and quantitative synthesis approaches was found (e.g., Vaessen et al, 2014). In very few cases, a combination of qualitative and quantitative synthesis approaches was found (e.g., Vaessen et al, 2014).…”

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“…Two meta-studies, both including a meta-analysis, explicitly focused on women's empowerment (Brody et al, 2015;Vaessen et al, 2014). Two meta-studies, both including a meta-analysis, explicitly focused on women's empowerment (Brody et al, 2015;Vaessen et al, 2014).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…However, several studies indicated the effects (predominantly of credit access, in these studies) to be heterogeneous across different women and different contexts (Brody et al, 2015;Kennedy et al, 2014;Peters et al 2016;Vaessen et al 2014). However, several studies indicated the effects (predominantly of credit access, in these studies) to be heterogeneous across different women and different contexts (Brody et al, 2015;Kennedy et al, 2014;Peters et al 2016;Vaessen et al 2014).…”

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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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PROTOCOL: The effect of interventions for women's empowerment on children's health and education: A systematic review of evidence from low‐ and middle‐income countries

Vollmer

Khan

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et al. 2017

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PROTOCOL: The effects of microcredit on women's control over household spending in developing countries

Cited by 16 publications

References 24 publications

The Impact of Microfinance in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review of the Evidence

The Impact of Microfinance in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review of the Evidence

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

PROTOCOL: The effect of interventions for women's empowerment on children's health and education: A systematic review of evidence from low‐ and middle‐income countries

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