Effects of microcredit and other loans on female empowerment in Bangladesh: the borrower's gender influences intra‐household resource allocation

Porter, Maria

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“…Ward‐level or other regional characteristics were previously used as instruments for endogenous household variables (e.g. Porter, ; Arslan et al ., ; Hirvonen and Hoddinott, ; Ma et al ., ). The advantage of regional instruments is that they are usually not influenced by individual households, so they are less likely to be endogenous than household‐level instruments.…”

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Agricultural Commercialisation and Nutrition in Smallholder Farm Households

Ogutu

Gödecke²,

Qaim³

2019

J Agricultural Economics

112

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Commercialisation of smallholder agriculture is important for rural economic growth. While previous studies have analysed effects of commercialisation on productivity and income, implications for farm household nutrition have received much less attention. We evaluate the effects of commercialisation on household food security and dietary quality with a special focus on calorie and micronutrient consumption. We also examine transmission channels by looking at the role of income, gender, and possible substitution effects between the consumption of own-produced and purchased foods. The analysis uses survey data from farm households in Kenya and a control function approach. Generalised propensity scores are employed to estimate continuous treatment effects. Commercialisation significantly improves food security and dietary quality in terms of calorie, zinc and iron consumption. For vitamin A, effects are insignificant. Commercialisation contributes to higher incomes and increased nutrients from purchased foods, but it does not reduce the consumption of nutrients from own-produced foods. Enhancing market access is important not only for rural economic growth, but also for making smallholder agriculture more nutrition-sensitive.

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Agricultural Commercialisation and Nutrition in Smallholder Farm Households

Ogutu

Gödecke²,

Qaim³

2019

J Agricultural Economics

112

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“…A spouse's decision of participating in nonfarm work is a risk coping strategy to secure necessities during shortfalls (Abdulai & Delegado, ). Moreover, women are considered for prioritizing providing food for their family over other nonfood expenditures, compared to men (Kennedy & Haddad, ; Porter, ). Accordingly, an increase in women's income share has been established to have a positive impact on household food budget share (Hoddinott & Haddad, ).…”

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Enhancing food security through diet quality: The role of nonfarm work in rural India

Dsouza

Mishra

Hirsch

2019

Agricultural Economics

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India has achieved food security at the macro level. However, at the micro level, the country still struggles with extensive problems of food nutrition insecurity. In this paper, we assess the impact of nonfarm income and nonfarm work status (casual and full‐time nonfarm work) of operator, spouses, and couples on the diet quality of smallholder households in India. We find that nonfarm income decreases the likelihood of farming household being in the poor‐diet quality group by 31% and the medium‐diet quality group by 3%. Full‐time nonfarm work by operators and spouses decreases the likelihood of farming households being in the poor‐diet quality group by 3% and 9%, respectively. Finally, national programs like public food distribution programs increase the probability of rural farming households in the poor‐diet quality group. Findings from this study underscore the importance of nonfarm income and full‐time nonfarm work in improving diet quality of rural Indian households.

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“…He found that, microcredit empowered the women regarding skill development, strengthening the self confidence level and contribution in family's decision making [13]. Porter describes the influences of the gender of the borrowers in taking the decision of the allocation of resources for the expenditures [14]. Jinia inspect that whether the microcredit increase the power of women in the decision making of the family or not?…”

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Does Microfinance Matter for Women Borrowers? Recent Findings from Bangladesh

Hossain

Wadood

2019

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This paper examines the impact of microfinance on some selected women borrower respondents of Bangladesh, who have been selected through a systematic random survey process. This is a quantitative research based on primary and secondary data. The primary data was collected through a structured questionnaire on sixty women borrowers of the Dhaka City, Bangladesh. This paper finds that microfinance has a highly significant positive impact on the income of these women borrower respondents. Moreover, though microfinance encourages for savings and buying new asset but it has no significant impact on their asset building and savings.Overall, there has been a mixed outcome from this cross-sections data: microfinance has been found as a matter for women borrowers' income increasing aspects, whereas not much effective in increasing savings or building up of assets. Finally the paper recommends some steps to increase effectiveness of microfinance on the women borrowers, including expanding training facilities and lower interest rates particularly for women borrowers.

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Effects of microcredit and other loans on female empowerment in Bangladesh: the borrower's gender influences intra‐household resource allocation

Cited by 23 publications

References 64 publications

Agricultural Commercialisation and Nutrition in Smallholder Farm Households

Agricultural Commercialisation and Nutrition in Smallholder Farm Households

Enhancing food security through diet quality: The role of nonfarm work in rural India

Does Microfinance Matter for Women Borrowers? Recent Findings from Bangladesh

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