Prelims - What’s Wrong with Microfinance

Dichter, Thomas W.; Harper, Malcolm

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“…Thus, Dichter and Harper (2007) asks the following question: is a single-minded HUM 28,4 micro level approach (focusing only on credit) able to change the society and to empower women? The implication is that the GB focuses only on empowering women financially and not on other aspects of their development.…”

Section: Feminist Gender Development and The Gb Sixteen Decisions Cammentioning

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“…The GB strategy is to work within the existing religious culture without challenging or disturbing the Bangladeshi rural patriarchal culture and values. Rather it respects Bangladeshi traditions, while pushing to empower GB women borrowers (Linmgam, 2008;Drake and Elisabeth, 2002;Goetz, 2001;Dichter and Harper, 2007;Mahmud, 2004;Umar, 2001). This dual strategy may leave GB women borrowers without the necessary support to liberate themselves from male chauvinism.…”

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A feminist interpretation of Grameen Bank Sixteen Decisions campaign

Rouf

2012

Humanomics

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If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation. AbstractPurpose -The purpose of this paper is to look at Grameen Bank (GB) Sixteen Decisions campaigns and its implications to feminism; and to examine the degree to which women borrowers of the Grameen Bank are empowered to participate in familial decision-making around dowry and teenage marriage and to develop their public spaces in the community. Moreover, the paper critically looks at the GB women borrowers' development through the Sixteen Decisions. Design/methodology/approach -The study uses multiple research methods. It reviews and analyzes GB Sixteen Decision texts and feminist literature, uses survey method to collect data from Grameen Bank micro borrowers in 2011 and uses secondary data.Findings -The survey finds information on the GB members and GB family members elected in the Union Parishad Elections in 1997 and in 2003, a testimony that GB women borrowers' local counsel participation trend is increasing. This study still finds the gender equality issues exist in the GB Sixteen Decisions texts and the Sixteen Decisions campaign strategies for women borrowers' empowerment. Originality/value -This critical analysis of GB Sixteen Decisions is very important to empower GB women borrowers because the GB Sixteen Decisions texts and the Sixteen Decisions campaigns could be made more effective in addressing women's issues like dowry-less marriage, teenage marriage and gender equality rights in the family and community space if Grameen Bank could revise the Sixteen Decisions texts and support borrowers in their anti-dowry and anti-teen age marriage campaign in Bangladesh.

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Section: Feminist Gender Development and The Gb Sixteen Decisions Cammentioning

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Section: Gb Sixteenmentioning

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A feminist interpretation of Grameen Bank Sixteen Decisions campaign

Rouf

2012

Humanomics

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“…), limited macro‐economic impact (Honohan, 2004) and an increasing body of evidence on the negligible and even negative effects (mainly on the extreme poor) and lack of rural outreach of microfinance are some of the more recent critical signals emerging in the debates (e.g. Dichter and Harper, 2007).…”

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PROTOCOL: The effects of microcredit on women's control over household spending in developing countries

Vaessen¹,

Bastiaensen²,

Bonilla³

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Campbell Systematic Reviews

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“…On the other hand, scholars have questioned some of the methods in earlier studies and find mixed or little indication of either business growth or associated reduction in poverty from providing credit (Morduch, 1999; Banerjee et al ., 2009). These later findings have led to increasing scrutiny of the microcredit industry and the empirical evidence purporting its benefits (Dichter and Harper, 2007; Karnani, 2007; Bateman and Chang, 2008). So what might explain these discrepancies in findings?…”

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“…Attention to this question has been directed towards institutions, clients and the economic environment (see Dichter and Harper, 2007 for an overview), but little attention has been directed towards the business opportunities pursued by clients (Karlan and Valdivia, 2010). Recent studies (e.g.…”

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The innovation necessity: Evidence from microcredit in the Dominican Republic

Bradley

Artz

Hulett

2010

J of Intl Development

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This study examines the role of business innovation as an important, but understudied intervening relationship between microcredit loans and income level. Using archival and survey data of microcredit clients from the Dominican Republic, the study finds that loan size has a positive effect on income level, but only in the presence of business innovation. We find that greater business training in relation to competitors is a significant indicator of business innovation. The findings also suggest that personal characteristics and competitive environment play a joint, but opposite role with innovation in predicting income level.

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Prelims - What’s Wrong with Microfinance

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A feminist interpretation of Grameen Bank Sixteen Decisions campaign

A feminist interpretation of Grameen Bank Sixteen Decisions campaign

PROTOCOL: The effects of microcredit on women's control over household spending in developing countries

The innovation necessity: Evidence from microcredit in the Dominican Republic

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