Conflicts Over Credit: Re-Evaluating the Empowerment Potential of Loans to Women in Rural Bangladesh

By N. Kabeer. 2001

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Women and Money: Lessons from Senegal (2006, background): “Others have argued that this is especially true with regard to gender inequalities (Johnson, 1999; Kabeer, 2001; Mayoux, 1999).”
Women and Repayment in Microfinance: A Global Analysis (2011, methodology): “by women are in some cases used and controlled by the men within their households (Goetz and Gupta, 1996; Rahman, 1999; Kabeer, 2001; Mayoux, 2001).”
Focus on Women in Microfinance Institutions (2013, background): “MFIs do indeed favour women (Mayoux, 1999; Kabeer, 2001; Armendariz and Morduch, 2005) and that these MFIs normally have higher repayment records (Kevane and Wydick, 2001; D’Espallier et al., 2011), we know of no empirical studies that have rigorously studied in a global context the primary MFI…”
Female Empowerment: Impact of a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines (2010, neutral): “2 On a policy level, microfinance proponents often argue that these empowerment mechanisms justify increased attention and financing to microfinance institutions, and perhaps even subsidies (Hashemi, Schuler, & Riley, 1996; Kabeer, 1999).”
Globalization, gender and poverty: Bangladeshi women workers in export and local markets (2004, background): “However, social barriers to women’s participation in paid work outside the home remain and returns to women’s labour in these off-farm activities remain low (Kabeer, 2001; Rahman and Khandker, 1994).”
Measuring Women’s Empowerment: A Critical Review of Current Practices and Recommendations for Researchers (2017, background): “Some studies see it as disguised male decision-making, whereas other studies see it as evidence of cooperation (Kabeer 2001).”
Actually how Empowering is Microcredit (2003, neutral): “The question also remains whether ‘demonstrated capacity to invest loans profitably’ can be a realistic definition of empowerment in the context of rural Bangladesh, where there are significant barriers to the expansion of women’s productive investments and women’s access to markets and public servi”
Gender Socialization during Adolescence in Low- and Middle-Income Countries : Conceptualization, influences and outcomes (2017, background): “In the Philippines, women workers in export manufacturing were able to delay marriage and childbirth and enjoy greater personal independence and autonomy (Kabeer, 2001).”
Women’s status and domestic violence in rural Bangladesh: Individual- and community-level effects (2003, background): “1996); the increased economic selfreliance and familial decision-making roles of women resulting from membership in a group (Kabeer 2001);(1) and the increased visibility, public exposure, and establishment of support networks resulting from the regular participation of women in credit-group meeting”
Linking Social Entrepreneurship and Social Change: The Mediating Role of Empowerment (2016, background): “The early focus on collective mobilization of women (Subramaniam 2011), access to microfinance (Goetz and Gupta 1996; Kabeer 2001; Leach and Sitaram 2002; Mayoux 2002) and self-employment (Jumani 1993; Leach and Sitaram 2002; Rose 1992) has been succeeded more recently by rising interest in the…”
Recasting Our Understanding of Gender and Work During Global Restructuring (2003, background): “Researchers and advocates have found that microfinance can have positive ‘virtuous circle’ effects and negative ‘feminization of debt’ effects on women’s lives (Amin, R. et al., 1998; Karim, M. R. and Osada, 1998; Khandker, 1998; Haq, 1999; Rahman, A., 1999b; Kabeer, 2001; Pearl and Phillips, 2001; ”