Microenterprise Lending to Female Entrepreneurs: Sacrificing Economic Growth for Poverty Alleviation?

By Michael Kevane, B. Wydick. 2001

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies, Safety Research

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Analysis of Barriers to Women Entrepreneurship: The DEMATEL Approach (2017, background): “…scholars have, in the past, examined the various barriers to women entrepreneurship in different contexts (e.g., Akehurst et al., 2012; Allen et al., 2008; Bosma et al., 2004; Hussain et al., 2015; Kevane & Wydick, 2001; Mathew, 2010; McElwee & Al-Riyami, 2003; Robb, 2002; Watson & Robinson, 2003).”
Business Training and Female Enterprise Start-Up, Growth, and Dynamics: Experimental Evidence from Sri Lanka (2012, unknown): “However, the majority of female-owned enterprises are small in scale with commensurately low earning levels (Kevane and Wydick, 2001; Banerjee and Duflo 2008; de Mel et al, 2009a).”
Linking female entrepreneurs' motivation to business survival (2015, background): “Conversely, Kevane and Wydick (2001) find that having children—and other family obligations like caring for elderly and young family members—negatively affects creating and growing businesses due to the time caring for children requires.”
Constraints faced by women entrepreneurs in developing countries: review and ranking (2018, background): “This is especially important because financing for women entrepreneurs is increasing in developing countries (Kevane and Wydick, 2001).”
Women and Repayment in Microfinance: A Global Analysis (2011, methodology): “The relation between female focus and repayment differs with the MFI’s scope of activities. d. Lending methodology MFIs employ various lending methodologies, such as village banking, solidarity groups, and individual-based lending (Sharma and Zeller, 1997; Kevane and Wydick, 2001).”
Inequality and the polarizing impact of microcredit: evidence from Zambia's copperbelt (2002, methodology): “Both methods were employed by Kevane and Wydick (2001) to examine the differential impact of microcredit on women in Guatemala.”
Women entrepreneurship in small service firms: motivations, barriers and performance (2012, background): “…of the business owner and having young children (Carter & Rosa, 1998), whilst others indicate that children have a negative influence on job creation and, consequently, on firm expansion on the part of women (Breen, Calvert, & Oliver, 1995; Brush, 1992; Chell & Baines, 1998; Kevane & Wydick, 2001).”
Promising approaches to address the needs of poor female farmers (2010, background): “A study in Guatemala (Kevane and Wydick 2001) found that gender differences in ability to expand familyowned enterprises were highly correlated to the life cycle.”
Focus on Women in Microfinance Institutions (2013, background): “Existing empirical evidence generally confirms that women do indeed repay better than men (Khandker et al., 1995; Sharma and Zeller, 1997; Kevane and Wydick, 2001; D’Espallier et al., 2011), but does not explore the link with other MFI profit drivers.”
Supply‐Chain Research Opportunities with the Poor as Suppliers or Distributors in Developing Countries (2014, unknown): “…and Morduch 2007), (b) the effectiveness of those four microﬁnance models mentioned above (Komera 2008), (c) the impact of lending to women vs. men (Kevane and Wydic 2001 and Pitt and Khadnker 1998), (d) the determination of optimal interest-rate for lenders to charge for those micro-loans…”