Tackling the Down Side: Social Capital, Women's Empowerment and Micro-Finance in Cameroon

By L. Mayoux. 2001

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management Information Systems, Urban Studies

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Women Empowerment Through Microfinance: Empirical Evidence from Ghana (2017, background): “Contemporary studies on the impact of microfinance on women empowerment acknowledges five main dimensions of women empowerment resulting from their participation in microfinance programs: economic, social, political, legal and psychological empowerment of which economic and social empowerment are th”
Microfinance: Creating Opportunities for the Poor? (2010, background): “For example, voluntary rotating savings and credit associations of various sorts are proliferating across Southeast Asia and Africa (Anthony, 2005; Mayoux, 2001) and allow individuals to receive periodic payouts from group contributions.”
Individual Determinants of Participation in Community Development in Indonesia (2005, background): “Although it is also documented that social capital can contribute to exploitative or exclusionary relationships, these negative aspects of social capital are beyond the scope of this paper (Mayoux, 2001; Portes, 1998).”
Community Driven Development, Collective Action and Elite Capture in Indonesia (2007, background): “…contribution of social capital to development remains a contentious issue in social science (Bourdieu, 1986; Coleman, 1988; Fine, 2001; Loury, 1977; Portes, 1998) and in public policy (Harriss, 2001; Lin, 2001; Mayer, 2003; Mayer and Rankin, 2002; Mayoux, 2001; Paldman, 2000; Rankin, 2002).”
Microlending in emerging economies: Building a new line of inquiry from the ground up (2011, background): “The evidence we presented in support of Proposition 2 suggests that, once such women were in possession of a loan, the low status and power of women in the societies we studied put them squarely in the nexus between the demands of the business and the expectations of their spouses and family (Chambl”
Unpacking social capital in Economic Development: How social relations matter (2007, background): “7 See for example research on social capital and gender inequality for female entrepreneurs in credit through group-lending: Linda Mayoux (2001), Katherine Rankin (2002), and Maxine Molyneux (2002).”
The Impact of Microfinance on Decision‐Making Agency: Evidence from South India (2005, background): “See also Mayoux (2001) on the difference between microfinance programmes that narrowly focus on financial sustainability and those that invest more in building social capital.”
The Handbook of Microfinance (2011, background): “Not only are many men as much in need of microfinance services, but male exclusion might be counter-productive or even dangerous, since it runs the risk of increasing tensions within the household, neighbourhood or the local community (Mayoux, 2001).”
Economic Self-Help group Programs for Improving Women's Empowerment: A Systematic Review (2015, background): “…2012 This study does not report direct quotations from women participants Mayoux, 2000 This is not an evaluation of a self-help group program Mayoux, 2001 This study does not report direct quotations from participants Meena, 2011 This is not an evaluation of a self-help group program Moyle…”
Women and Repayment in Microfinance: A Global Analysis (2011, methodology): “Microfinance can contribute to female empowerment, but can also lead to the feminization of debt (Mayoux, 2001).”
Informal microfinance institutions and development-led tourism entrepreneurship (2016, methodology): “This research contributes to the literature debating the impacts of IMFIs on development (Banerjee & Duflo, 2011; Mayoux, 2001; WTO, 2005) by uncovering the nature of the collective action that enables IMFIs to impact on a specific economic sector, in this case development-led tourism entrepreneursh”