Impact Of Micro Credit On Empowerment Of Rural Women In Bangladesh

Author : Sabina Sultana
Publisher : LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9783659297953
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Impact of Micro-Credit on Empowerment of Rural Women in Bangladesh written by Sabina Sultana and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main focus of the study was to assess the impacts of microcredit on rural women' empowerment in terms of increased income, ownership of assets, gender awareness and improvement of livelihood of the women. The study was conducted in Gazipur Sadar Upazila under Gazipur District of Bangladesh. A total of 90 respondents, 45 from BRAC and 45 from non-BRAC women were randomly selected for the study. It was revealed that the majority of BRAC women and non- BRAC women had no income from agricultural sources. It was also found that in case of agricultural sources, 20% of BRAC women belong to the high to very high -income category while not a single non- BRAC women had high to very high income. Personal income of BRAC women's was more than non-BRAC women and their involvement agricultural and non- agricultural were high. About half of the non- BRAC women had no increased productive assets in the last one year. In case of BRAC women the value of increasing assets were small to medium. It was found that most of the BRAC women's decision making power have been changed and it was higher than non- BRAC women in the study area.

Author : Faraha Nawaz
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 303013539X
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Microfinance and Women’s Empowerment in Bangladesh written by Faraha Nawaz and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-03-01 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the effects of policies and practices of microfinance NGOs in empowering rural women in Bangladesh. Nawaz seeks to unpack the untold narratives of women's empowerment and to fill the current knowledge gap in this area. The book goes beyond the narrow minimalist evaluation of microfinance that only focuses on women’s economic empowerment through their ability to access financial resources. Rather, it looks at whether and how microfinance empowers women in a holistic manner across the socio-cultural, psychological and political spheres of life. The author argues that microfinance reduces levels of poverty, which means that women are better able to meet their practical gender needs; however, they are not empowered unless they are also able to meet their strategic gender needs, including the transformation of gender power relations from the household to state arenas. Therefore, the book argues that in order to bring about higher levels of empowerment, microfinance programs must be combined with other services such as financial literacy, socioeconomic training, education, healthcare, social mobilization and legal support. Microfinance and Women’s Empowerment in Bangladesh will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including Gender Studies, Development Studies, and Politics.

Author : International Movement ATD Fourth World
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reaching the Poorest written by International Movement ATD Fourth World and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes experiences in reaching marginalized communities in situations of chronic poverty, as part of ATD Fourth World & the Permanent Forum on Extreme Poverty in the World. It presents seven case studies (Burkina Faso, Guatemala, Haiti, Canada, Peru, Thailand & Uganda) & the lessons to be learned from them, with each illustrating steps taken, difficulties encountered, entry points found, some success factors & key results obtained.

Author : Shafeen Mustaq
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780646550367
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Financial Empowerment of Women in Bangladesh Through Microcredit written by Shafeen Mustaq and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book investigates the impact of microcredit, through the lending practices of Grameen Bank and others, on the empowerment of rural Bangladeshi women. The research explores how microcredit affects female borrowers and pervades social norms to have implications on social position and self worth. Women have traditionally been the object of orthodox ideas of representation and absorbed these into their habitus. Bangladeshi women who are traditionally brought up with conventional religious, gender and class instruction develop ingrained ideas of how to be conservative and religious in order to be socially acceptable. Through the injection of micro-credit and income generation, this condition is changed through a process of adapting to a new role in an old field. Microcredit has provided village women in Bangladesh the opportunity to gain communication and interpersonal skills, independence and a position of authority within the family environment. It has motivated them to grow and develop skills which allow them to proceed onto skilled labour and open up new avenues of opportunity.'--PriyoAustralia website book review.

Author : Samjhana Wagle
Publisher : Cook Communication
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Microcredit and women's empowerment written by Samjhana Wagle and published by Cook Communication. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Micro-credit has been taken as a prominent tool for poverty alleviation and women's empowerment. This book has presented the double-edged claim of microcredit proponents that microcredit not only supports rural poor to come out of poverty, it also empowers poor rural women in particular. This book is mainly grounded on research based on Bandipur Rural Municipality of Nepal. It has made the study of women from 3 settlements of Bandipur, who had availed microcredit facilities from some microcredit providing institutions or organizations in Bandipur. The data has been analyzed through qualitative data analysis under which both descriptive and explanatory methods. The data analysis is made on the basis of caste/ethnic group. The results showed that most of the females who availed the facility of microcredit finally got socioeconomic empowerment through acquiring the access to capital, control over resources, self-esteem, confidence level, decision making power, etc. Results are varied on Dalit, Janajati and Brahmin/Chhetri women. The findings showed that microcredit has significant impact on the upliftment of socio-economic empowerment of the borrowers of Bandipur. The income pattern of the respondent women has been changed. Daily wage earning and agricultural production were the main source of income before joining the program but after joining the microcredit program the sources of income shifted to small scale business, sale of livestock product and agricultural product. Entrepreneurship in microcredit beneficiary women has been increased. Apart from the changing income pattern, role of women in decision making about the resources mobilization for household activities, participation in societal affairs has also been increased. The economic dependency had restricted women in decision making power in all the spheres not only economical but also in other family and social affairs. But it has been changed now. Since, women are capable to generate regular income from their small enterprises; their dependency on male for money is reduced. Women's confidence and social status has increased after involvement in MC programs. Microcredit, though an effective poverty alleviating instrument, is not suitable for all categories of the poor. For those trapped in chronic poverty, no assets base to protect themselves from the countless webs of shocks, microcredit can be ineffective and sometimes counterproductive. Some cases of Dalit settlement have proved it.

Author : Aminul Faraizi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136868224
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Microcredit and Women's Empowerment written by Aminul Faraizi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-04 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a case study of Bangladesh, and based on a long term participatory observation method, this book investigates claims of the success of microcredit, as well as the critiques of it, in the context of women’s empowerment. It confronts the distinction between women’s increasing wealth as a consequence of the success of microcredit programmes and their apparent non-commensurate empowerment, looking at two organisations (the Grameen Bank and the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee) as they operate in two localities in rural Bangladesh, in order to discover how enrichment and empowerment are often confused. The book goes on to establish that the well-publicised success stories of the microcredit programme are blown out of proportion, and that the dynamics of collective responsibility for repayment of loans by a group of women borrowers – usually seen to be a tool for the success of microcredit – is in fact no less repressive than traditional debt collectors. This book makes a contribution to development debates; challenging adherents to more closely specify those conditions under which microcredit does indeed have validity, as well as providing insights relevant to South Asian Studies and Development Studies.

Author : Qazi Kholiquzzaman Ahmad
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789840517787
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Socioeconomic and Indebtedness Related Impact of Micro Credit in Bangladesh written by Qazi Kholiquzzaman Ahmad and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lamia Karim
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816670943
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Microfinance and Its Discontents written by Lamia Karim and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first feminist critique of the much-lauded microcredit process in Bangladesh.

Author : Fiona Steele
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Impact of an Integrated Micro-credit Program on Women's Empowerment and Fertility Behavior in Rural Bangladesh written by Fiona Steele and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Faraha Nawaz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783030135416
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Microfinance and Women's Empowerment in Bangladesh written by Faraha Nawaz and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the effects of policies and practices of microfinance NGOs in empowering rural women in Bangladesh. Nawaz seeks to unpack the untold narratives of women's empowerment and to fill the current knowledge gap in this area. The book goes beyond the narrow minimalist evaluation of microfinance that only focuses on women's economic empowerment through their ability to access financial resources. Rather, it looks at whether and how microfinance empowers women in a holistic manner across the socio-cultural, psychological and political spheres of life. The author argues that microfinance reduces levels of poverty, which means that women are better able to meet their practical gender needs; however, they are not empowered unless they are also able to meet their strategic gender needs, including the transformation of gender power relations from the household to state arenas. Therefore, the book argues that in order to bring about higher levels of empowerment, microfinance programs must be combined with other services such as financial literacy, socioeconomic training, education, healthcare, social mobilization and legal support. Microfinance and Women's Empowerment in Bangladesh will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including Gender Studies, Development Studies, and Politics.