The Impact of Microfinance on Decision‐Making Agency: Evidence from South India

By N. Holvoet. 2005

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Women and Money: Lessons from Senegal (2006, background): “Recent research in South India indicates that support groups offering training and capacitybuilding are better able than others to promote the empowerment of women (Holvoet, 2005).”
Systematic Review. What is the evidence of the impact of microfinance on the well-being of poor people? (2011, background): “Pitt and Khandker 1998, Matin and Hulme 2003 on Bangladesh, Patten and Rosengard 1991, Robinson 2002 on Indonesia); others report that microfinance is not always beneficial (Adams and von Pischke 1992, Rogaly 1996). Hulme and Mosley (1996) imply that microfinance does on average have positive impact”
Should Access to Credit be a Right? (2009, neutral): “Unlike most rights, a 1 Cfr. National Bank of Belgium (2007) 2 For an analysis of informal markets and microfinance, see Guérin (2006) or Holvoet (2004) 3 See, for instance, Sengupta (2000), Gauri (2003), Sen (2004) or Anand (2007).”
What Constrains Financial Inclusion for Women? Evidence from Indian Micro data (2017, background): “Even within-country studies do not adequately address the behavior of femaleheaded households, or even if they do, focus essentially on access alone (Fletschner, 2008; Hazarika & Guha-Khasnobis, 2008; Holvoet, 2005; Rawlings & Rubio, 2005).”
Does microfinance empower women? Evidence from self‐help groups in India (2009, background): “Holvoet (2005) finds in her study of women in rural Kenya that in direct bank-borrower minimal credit, women do not gain much in terms of decision-making power within the household.”
Microcredit and Women’s Empowerment: Through the Lens of Time Use Data from Rural India (2012, neutral): “Investigating the impact of different lending technologies, Holvoet (2005) finds that credit alone is insufficient to produce an impact on women’s decision making pattern and to be beneficial it needs to be channeled through groups and combined with training.”
The Impact of Economic Resource Transfers to Women Versus Men (2012, background): “Holvoet (2005) and Hoffman (2008) were excluded due to concerns about the quality of comparison groups and control variables.”
Can self-help group programs improve women’s empowerment? A systematic review (2017, background): “…Swain and Wallentin 2009; Banerjee et al. 2015; De Hoop et al. 2014; Deininger and Liu 2013; Desai and Joshi 2012; Garikipati 2008; Garikipati 2012; Holvoet 2005; Husain, Mukherjee, and Dutta 2010; Mahmud 1994; Mukherjee and Kundu 2012; Nessa, Ali, and Abdul-Hakim 2012; Osmani 2007; Pitt,…”
Economic Self-Help group Programs for Improving Women's Empowerment: A Systematic Review (2015, methodology): “…to measure a general empowerment index and Banerjee et al. (2015) use a normalized index score to measure economic empowerment, whereas Deininger and Liu (2013) and Holvoet (2005) and use several dummy variables measured through a household survey to measure women’s economic and social empowerment.”
Is Microfinance a ‘Magic Bullet’ for Women’s Empowerment? Analysis of Findings from South Asia (2005, methodology): “Holvoet (2005) carried out one of the more carefully designed studies of the impact on decision-making in the context of Tamil Nadu.”