Micro-finance and Women Empowerment

Sharma, Puspa Raj

doi:10.3126/jnbs.v4i1.1026

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“…The earlier literature mainly focused on three different perspectives of female empowerment. Firstly, a sizeable body of literature is available on women's role in economic development [9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17]. These studies confirmed that women significantly played their economic role through accessing ICTs, microfinancing, tourism development, reproductive healthcare decisions, and business entrepreneurship activities.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 93%

“…Ecofeminist use in this study was moderated with technological spillovers to equip the female labor force with sustainable production technologies to decrease GHG emissions. The earlier literature is available on two different literature streams; the first stream of the earlier literature is highly provoking the positive role of women in economic development [10,[52][53][54]. The widespread discrimination and vulnerability are broadly viewed in most developed and developing countries [55][56][57].…”

Section: Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Technowomen: Women’s Autonomy and Its Impact on Environmental Quality

Mujeed

Jabeen

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Sustainability

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The role of women in economic development and the global environment is vital for progressing them towards the United Nations sustainable development goal (SDG-5) that emphasized the need to empower women in every walk of life. The study examines women’s autonomy in the sustainable development agenda under China’s open innovation system from 1975 to 2019. The study employed an autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model, vector autoregressive (VAR) Granger causality, and innovation accounting matrix to estimate parameters. The existing data are summarized and collated in the context of China to explain as a correlational study. The results show that women’s autonomy moderated with technology spills over to decrease greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and substantiate the hump-shaped relationship between them. The increased spending on research and development (R&D) activities, patent publications, and renewable energy consumption empowers women to be equipped with the latest sustainable technologies to improve environmental quality. The pollution haven hypothesis verifies a given country, where trade liberalization policies tend to increase polluting industries to set up their plants that engaged in dirty production that exacerbate GHG emissions. The causality estimates confirmed that technological innovations and renewable energy consumption leads to women’s autonomy. In contrast, females’ share in the labor force participation rate leads to an increase in renewable energy consumption. Thus, it is evident that there is a positive role of women in the country’s sustainable development.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 93%

Section: Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Technowomen: Women’s Autonomy and Its Impact on Environmental Quality

Mujeed

Jabeen

et al. 2021

Sustainability

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“…A similar study is presented in Ashe (2002) and Aoki and Pradhan (2013). There are many other scholarly articles that study issues from poverty to women empowerment, to business expansion and employment generation in a variety of contexts (Ghimire et al, 2017;Ghimire et al, 2019;Kulkarni, Azam, & Gaiha, 2017;Ngala, 2017;Peters, 2017;Sharma, 2007). A survey of the issues covered in microfinance research, as presented in literature such as Banerjee 2013; García-Pérez, Fernández-Izquierdo, and Muñoz-Torres (2020); Gutiérrez-Nieto and Serrano-Cinca (2019), etc., does not indicate works that perform perception analysis and this paper attempts to fill that gap.…”

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confidence: 99%

What Explains the Overwhelmingly Positive Perception towards Microfinance Institutions? Application of Firth’s Logistic Regression in a Small Sample

Ghimire

Valeva

Zheng

2020

The Economics and Finance Letters

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This paper focuses on analyzing small-sample business survey data. We survey 129 businesses in Nepal, where a majority of businesses express an overwhelmingly positive perception towards microfinance institutions (MFIs). The survey focuses mainly on how businesses perceive the services provided by local MFIs. In order to address the bias in maximum likelihood estimation in the context of small sample size, we utilize Firth's adjusted maximum likelihood estimation procedure in the application of logistic regression. The results show that it is the borrowing of a loan from an MFI, not the actual business performance, which influences a business owner's perception towards the role of MFIs in various aspects of rural development. While there is no strong evidence of the MFI loans helping with the actual business performance, and thereby influencing the perceptions, we discuss the potential benefits of owning a business that may be contributing to the positive perceptions towards the institutions with which they are associated. These findings have important implications from the managerial perspective of both MFIs and governing institutions in developing countries. Contribution/Originality: This study documents how businesses express positive perception towards MFIs because of their membership, not necessarily because they have more favorable business outcomes. Methodologically, the paper uses Firth's logistic regression to address the bias present in maximum likelihood estimates computed from a small sample, something common in microfinance studies.

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“…Women empowerment is determined by their involvement in the decision-making process and enhancing their self-confidence level, by their status and by their level of social and political participation, by their power to control over their income, their degree of knowledge on social issue and awareness, awareness on problems about family relation and violence against them (Sharma, 2007). Women empowerment is the enhancing and having power for herself, her family and her society for the betterment of life.…”

Section: Women Empowermentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Empowering Tharu and Bote Women Through Vocational Skills: A Case of Amaltari Homestay

Newpane¹

2020

J Training & Devpt

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Tharu and Bote are indigenous groups of Nepal. They have been surviving by using their traditional skills and indigenous knowledge. However, at present, they have gradually started shifting their survival skills for their economic and socio-cultural development. Homestay is one such initiation and women’s role in particular has been vital to this initiation which is usually unnoticed in the society. In connection to this, this paper incorporates the stories of women who uses their vocational skills to run a homestay in their community. For this, a qualitative approach was used and Amaltari homestay which is run by the Tharu and Bote of Nawalparasi was selected as the research site. Several rounds of interactions with owners of the homestay, group discussion with community people and observation were used to collect information. The study found that the women of Tharu and Bote community in Amaltari homestay village have been using their skills in the area of hospitality, cooking traditional foods and crafting bamboo and wooden goods that can be sold to the guests as souvenir. Furthermore, they have been able to keep financial records of their business as well. In this sense, the homestay has significantly contributed to the indigenous practice and has been supportive in uplifting the Tharu and Bote women socially and culturally by using the traditionally learned vocational skills.

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Micro-finance and Women Empowerment

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Cited by 18 publications

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Technowomen: Women’s Autonomy and Its Impact on Environmental Quality

Technowomen: Women’s Autonomy and Its Impact on Environmental Quality

What Explains the Overwhelmingly Positive Perception towards Microfinance Institutions? Application of Firth’s Logistic Regression in a Small Sample

Empowering Tharu and Bote Women Through Vocational Skills: A Case of Amaltari Homestay

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