Empowering Women with Micro Finance: Evidence from Bangladesh

By M. Pitt, Shahidur R. Khandker, J. Cartwright. Economic development and cultural change, 2006

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Can self-help group programs improve women’s empowerment? A systematic review (2017, background): “…are from random effects analysis Overall (I-squared = 85.9%, p = 0.000) ID Study Desai and Joshi, 2012, India Desai and Tarozzi, 2013, Ethiopia Pitt et al., 2006, Bangladesh Kim et al., 2009 + Pronyk et al., 2006, South Africa ES (95% CI) 0.45 (0.25, 0.66) 28.95 -0.23 (-0.96, 0.50) 11.06 0.06…”
Gender Equality, Poverty and Economic Growth (2007, background): “Pitt et al. (2006) provide the most reliable estimates of the positive effect of credit on empowerment.”
The Impact of Economic Resource Transfers to Women Versus Men (2012, methodology): “A number of programmes targeting those with very low income, such as the BRAC Ultra-Poor programme in Bangladesh, have adopted this approach.”
Education, Marriage, and Fertility: Long-Term Evidence from a Female Stipend Program in Bangladesh (2017, methodology): “13 See Pitt et al. (2006) for a more detailed description of the factor analysis used in a similar context of creating an index for empowerment.”
Economic Self-Help group Programs for Improving Women's Empowerment: A Systematic Review (2015, methodology): “However, this finding is driven entirely by a single study – Pitt et al. (2006) is the only study with an emphasis on the effects of SHGs without a training component on women’s mobility (SMD=0.29, 95% CI=0.19, 0.38).”
High Noon for Microfinance Impact Evaluations: Re-investigating the Evidence from Bangladesh (2012, methodology): “Other outcome variables have been addressed in other papers using the PnK dataset (Pitt et al., 1999; Pitt, 2000; McKernan, 2002; Menon, 2006; Pitt and Khandker, 2002; Pitt et al., 2003; Pitt et al., 2006), but are not covered in this article.”
Measuring Women’s Empowerment: A Critical Review of Current Practices and Recommendations for Researchers (2017, background): “One Bangladeshi study asked husbands if their wives made purchases without their permission and if they could travel to locations unaccompanied, and these responses were integrated into measures of women’s empowerment (Pitt et al. 2006).”
Empowering Women through Microfinance: Evidence from Tanzania (2013, methodology): “The results are consistent with prior research with the view that women’s participation in microfinance services leads to an increased women’s empowerment (Leach & Sitaram, 2002; Pitt et al., 2006; Rai & Ravi, 2011).”
Women’s Land Rights and Children’s Human Capital in Vietnam (2014, background): “Income generation and access to credit can have feedback effects on measures of autonomy such as an increased role in household decision making and improved bargaining power vis-à-vis male members in the household (Agarwal 1994, Pitt et al. 2006).”
Does microfinance empower women? Evidence from self‐help groups in India (2009, methodology): “Several studies including Pitt et al. (2006) and Frankenberg and Thomas (2001) make a case for using data on attitudes of and towards women within the household.”
From Credit to Collective Action: The Role of Microfinance in Promoting Women's Social Capital and Normative Influence (2009, background): “This custom of social seclusion, prevalent in varying degrees throughout South Asia, contributes to women’s isolation.”