Ngo, Thi Minh-Phuong, Wahhaj, Zaki (2012) Microfinance and Gender Empowerment. Journal of Development Economics, 99 (1). pp. 1-12. ISSN 0304-3878. (doi:10.1016/j.jdeveco.2011.09.003) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:40234)
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2011.09.003 |
Abstract
In this paper, we develop a theoretical model of household production, bargaining and credit to analyse how access to microcredit affects intra-household decision-making and welfare, and identify conditions under which female household members are most likely to benefit. We show that, consistent with ethnographic accounts of the impact of microcredit programmes on poor households, access to loans can lead to a variety of outcomes for intra-household decision-making and welfare depending on initial conditions and that, in some instances, women borrowers may experience a decline in welfare. We identify two instances in which a woman is most likely to benefit: when there is scope for investing the loan profitably in a joint activity, and when a large share of the household budget is devoted to household public goods.
Item Type: | Article |
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DOI/Identification number: | 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2011.09.003 |
Additional information: | number of additional authors: 1; |
Uncontrolled keywords: | Microfinance; Gender; Intra-household bargaining |
Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Economics |
Depositing User: | Stewart Brownrigg |
Date Deposited: | 07 Mar 2014 00:05 UTC |
Last Modified: | 16 Nov 2021 10:15 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/40234 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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