Micro-Credit and Emotional Well-Being: Experience of Poor Rural Women from Matlab, Bangladesh

By S. Ahmed, M. Chowdhury, A. Bhuiya. 2001

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Can self-help group programs improve women’s empowerment? A systematic review (2017, background): “In addition, we take seriously the concern that SHGs may have negative unintended consequences resulting from the transgression of gender norms such as increased household and community tensions and decreases in subjective well-being (Ahmed, Chowdhury, and Bhuiya 2001; De Hoop et al. 2014).”
Micro-entrepreneurship and subjective well-being: Evidence from rural Bangladesh (2019, methodology): “This contrasts with the previous literature that has considered the effects of microcredit entrepreneurship on only one dimension of subjective well-being (Ahmed et al., 2001; Becchetti and Conzo, 2013; Chindarkar, 2012; Fernald et al., 2008).”
Empowering Women through Microfinance: Evidence from Tanzania (2013, background): “(1998) found that BRAC members in Matlab involved with credit-base income-generating activities are more than two times more likely to be victims of violence in the initial years, with the tendency to decrease over time compared to non-members (Ahmed et al., 2001).”
When and how far is group formation a route out of chronic poverty (2005, background): “9 However, external actors can 8 Goetz and Gupta 1996, Masud Ahmed & Chowdhury 2001, Rahman 1999, Marr 2003.”