The Impact of Lending to Women on Household Vulnerability and Women's Empowerment: Evidence from India

By S. Garikipati. 2008

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Soil Science, Urban Studies

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Juggling with Debt, Social Ties, and Values (2014, background): “For a detailed description of official rhetoric, see Garikipati (2008), Pattenden (2010), and Rao (2008).”
Gender equality and food security : women's empowerment as a tool against hunger (2013, background): “In 82% to 88% of those cases, women ended up having to engage in wage labor to make repayments (Garikipati 2008).”
Empowering Women through Microfinance: Evidence from Tanzania (2013, background): “The argument behind Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) targeting women is that, women are good credit risk, are less likely to misuse the loan, and are more likely to share the benefits with others in their household, especially their children (Garikipati, 2008; Swain & Wallentin, 2009).”
Systematic Review. What is the evidence of the impact of microfinance on the well-being of poor people? (2011, background): “A common feature of microcredit has been the targeting of women on the grounds that, compared to men, women both perform better as MFI clients and that their participation can have more desirable development outcomes (e.g. Pitt and Khandker 1998, Garikipati 2008).”
Does Education Empower Women? Evidence from Indonesia (2015, background): “Garikipati (2008), however, does not find that microfinance increases women’s asset ownership in India; she finds that women use their loans to increase household assets and income, not to ensure co-ownership of assets for themselves.”
Disentangling Bargaining Power from Individual and Household Level to Institutions: Evidence on Women’s Position in Ethiopia (2010, background): “For some women, credit makes them worse off in terms of net income (Goetz and Gupta, 1996) or domestic violence (Rahman, 1999), while it raises their hours of wage labor at very unfavorable conditions and at cost of their own businesses (Garikipati, 2008).”
Over-Indebtedness in Microfinance – An Empirical Analysis of Related Factors on the Borrower Level (2012, background): “Women might be more likely to use loans for household purposes rather than for productive investments (Garikipati, 2008).”
Can self-help group programs improve women’s empowerment? A systematic review (2017, background): “Two SHGs from India and South Africa were discussed in two quantitative papers (Garikipati 2008; Garikipati 2012; Kim et al. 2009; Pronyk et al. 2006).”
The spatial aggregation of rural e-commerce in China: An empirical investigation into Taobao Villages (2020, result): “The consistent results of these three regressions, especially that the significance of coefficients of the common variables (such as cit− 1, lit− 1, c lit− 1, nit− 1 and di) are the same and the value is approximate, which verifies the robustness of our models (Garikipati, 2008; Liu et al., 2014).”
Economic Self-Help group Programs for Improving Women's Empowerment: A Systematic Review (2015, methodology): “Yes / Can’t tell / No Has the relationship between researcher and participants been adequately considered?”