Adverse Incorporation and Microfinance among Cross-Border Traders in Senegal

Howson, Cynthia

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2012.06.002

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“…Senegalese women increasingly engage in economic activities (Guérin, 2008) and control their own incomes (Howson, 2013) while remaining subordinate to men. 4 They are mainly involved in small businesses, and they run about one-third of informal-sector activities.…”

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Women Leaders and Social Performance: Evidence from Financial Cooperatives in Senegal

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Szafarz

2015

World Development

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How do women leaders such as board members and top managers influence the social performance of organizations? This paper addresses the question by exploiting a unique database from a Senegalese network of 36 financial cooperatives. We scrutinize the loan-granting decisions, made jointly by the locally elected board and the top manager assigned by the central union of the network. Our findings are threefold. First, female-dominated boards favor social orientation. Second, female managers tend to align their strategy with local boards' preferences. Third, the central union tends to assign male managers to female-dominated boards, probably to curb the boards' social orientation.

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Women Leaders and Social Performance: Evidence from Financial Cooperatives in Senegal

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Szafarz

2015

World Development

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“…The situation of women in Senegal compares favorably to the rest of the developing world (Deaton, 1997). Senegalese women typically control their own incomes (Howson, 2013) while remaining subordinated to men. They increasingly engage in economic activities, 2 mainly small businesses.…”

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