Garikipati
Biographic Data
| ID | 205928 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Garikipati |
| FAMILY NAME | Garikipati |
| SIGNATURE | GARIKIPATI |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Liverpool |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8576-8227 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 160 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Community norms, peer influence, and women’s digital financial inclusion
We examine how gendered community norms and peer behaviour effect women’s adoption of digital financial services in India. • Results show that peer usage within communities plays a key role in shaping women’s uptake of digital financial services. • Restrictive gender norms, particularly those that limit women’s mobility, substantially reduce the likelihood of adoption. • Financial literacy efforts and mobile access should align with community-bas…
Patriarchy and the Pandemic
Unpaid housework done by men and women in dual-earner households goes to the heart of gender inequality. We explore this issue for urban India during the COVID-19 lockdown when work from home spiked and housework increased. We examine the extent to which women’s responsibility for housework and help given by partners changed during lockdown and any systematic differences in chores done by men and women. We conceptualize and empirically measure ba…
From sanitation to safety
Feminist Ideologies at Work
This study explores the role of feminist ideologies in enabling entrepreneurship among disadvantaged women in societies entrenched in structures of patriarchy. The study draws on evidence from Lijjat, a women’s cooperative in India. Through careful consideration of the context and relations in which marginalized women were able to initiate, develop, and successfully grow a business, results draw two key conclusions. First, pragmatist feminist ide…
Gender Inclusivity of India’s Digital Financial Revolution for Attainment of SDGs
Exploring the role of strategic environmental assessment in cultural heritage tourism planning
Sustainability is critical to the delivery of cultural heritage tourism (CHT) since its foundation to attract tourist relies on the preservation of the historic and cultural offerings of the host community. CHT destinations within urban and semi-urban heritage sites in emerging economies find this particularly challenging. To explore this issue and its associated challenges, this paper brings together an interdisciplinary team representing discip…
Leading the Fight Against the Pandemic
Since the start of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the relationship between national female leaders and their effectiveness in handling the COVID-crisis has received a lot of media attention. In this paper we scrutinise this association more systematically. We ask if there is a significant and systematic difference by gender of the national leader in the number of COVID-cases and deaths in the first quarter of the pandemic. We also examine diff…
Does Foreign Aid Improve Gender Performance in Recipient Countries
An explicit goal of foreign aid is to promote female empowerment and gender equality in developing countries. We investigate if foreign aid achieves this intended goal by examining its impact on gender performance of recipient countries at the country level. Employing structural equation models, our results suggest that aid alone, even when targeted to directly improve gender outcomes, is unlikely to shift systemic inequalities. Aid will need to …
Microfinance and Gender
This special collection examines the claim that microfinance promotes gender equality. The focus is on three areas of the debate: first, the question of how successful microfinance has been in empowering women; second, whether and how negative gender discrimination operates within the sector; third, how power relations within and beyond the household shape the context and outcomes of microfinance initiatives. The papers in this collection demonst…
The Cost of Empowerment
Poor women borrow from multiple sources. This study examines whether the source of debt matters for women’s role in household financial decisions. Drawing on a household survey from rural Tamil Nadu, we categorise women’s loans along the lines of accessibility and formality into ‘planned loans’ and ‘instant loans’. We find that ‘instant loans’ support women’s bargaining power in various types of household financial decisions, whereas ‘planned loa…
Microcredit and Women's Empowerment
This study examines the impact of microcredit on male and female time use, and draws on this analysis to explore the linkages between credit and women's empowerment. A study of time use can help understand these linkages, because if credit is intended to improve women's livelihoods, it can also be expected to influence the way women allocate their time. Its other advantages are that it does not suffer from much time lag and can be objectively mea…
Gender, Generation and Poverty
Landless but not assetless
Women's share of agricultural wage employment is rising across the Indian sub-continent. Studies examining this process of feminisation tend to be divided along the lines of an ideological debate following either the 'poverty-push' or the 'demand-pull' argument. This debate, however, has largely ignored the institution of patriarchy. In this study we revisit the debate with a focus on gender relations. The study is based on data collected from 29…
Preface
The role of agency in development planning and the development process
Agency in the context of a complex social world This article introduces ‘agency’ and its role in development debates and development planning. Our main aim is to set out the context for the papers in this collection, which we also introduce along the way. In the first part, we define and discuss agency; in the second part, we contextualise the case study examples in this Special Issue of IDPR with examples of gender and autonomy; in the third par…
Agricultural wage work, seasonal migration and the widening gender gap
The Impact of Lending to Women on Household Vulnerability and Women’s Empowerment
Consulting the Development-Displaced Regarding their Resettlement
Involuntary resettlement of people displaced by large dams, as by several other development projects, is largely considered a failure. Increasingly, researchers have shifted focus from trying to improve welfare outcomes for the affected to questioning the involuntariness of resettlement schemes. The idea of voluntary resettlement, under which the displaced are consulted regarding their resettlement, is often suggested as a preferred alternative. …
The Impact of Lending to Women on Household Vulnerability and Women’s Empowerment
Landless but not assetless
Women's share of agricultural wage employment is rising across the Indian sub-continent. Studies examining this process of feminisation tend to be divided along the lines of an ideological debate following either the 'poverty-push' or the 'demand-pull' argument. This debate, however, has largely ignored the institution of patriarchy. In this study we revisit the debate with a focus on gender relations. The study is based on data collected from 29…
Agricultural wage work, seasonal migration and the widening gender gap
Leading the Fight Against the Pandemic
Since the start of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the relationship between national female leaders and their effectiveness in handling the COVID-crisis has received a lot of media attention. In this paper we scrutinise this association more systematically. We ask if there is a significant and systematic difference by gender of the national leader in the number of COVID-cases and deaths in the first quarter of the pandemic. We also examine diff…
Microcredit and Women's Empowerment
This study examines the impact of microcredit on male and female time use, and draws on this analysis to explore the linkages between credit and women's empowerment. A study of time use can help understand these linkages, because if credit is intended to improve women's livelihoods, it can also be expected to influence the way women allocate their time. Its other advantages are that it does not suffer from much time lag and can be objectively mea…
Gender Inclusivity of India’s Digital Financial Revolution for Attainment of SDGs
The role of agency in development planning and the development process
Agency in the context of a complex social world This article introduces ‘agency’ and its role in development debates and development planning. Our main aim is to set out the context for the papers in this collection, which we also introduce along the way. In the first part, we define and discuss agency; in the second part, we contextualise the case study examples in this Special Issue of IDPR with examples of gender and autonomy; in the third par…
Consulting the Development-Displaced Regarding their Resettlement
Involuntary resettlement of people displaced by large dams, as by several other development projects, is largely considered a failure. Increasingly, researchers have shifted focus from trying to improve welfare outcomes for the affected to questioning the involuntariness of resettlement schemes. The idea of voluntary resettlement, under which the displaced are consulted regarding their resettlement, is often suggested as a preferred alternative. …
Preface
The role of agency in development planning and the development process
Agency in the context of a complex social world This article introduces ‘agency’ and its role in development debates and development planning. Our main aim is to set out the context for the papers in this collection, which we also introduce along the way. In the first part, we define and discuss agency; in the second part, we contextualise the case study examples in this Special Issue of IDPR with examples of gender and autonomy; in the third par…
Agricultural wage work, seasonal migration and the widening gender gap
The Impact of Lending to Women on Household Vulnerability and Women’s Empowerment
Gender, Generation and Poverty
Landless but not assetless
Women's share of agricultural wage employment is rising across the Indian sub-continent. Studies examining this process of feminisation tend to be divided along the lines of an ideological debate following either the 'poverty-push' or the 'demand-pull' argument. This debate, however, has largely ignored the institution of patriarchy. In this study we revisit the debate with a focus on gender relations. The study is based on data collected from 29…
Microcredit and Women's Empowerment
This study examines the impact of microcredit on male and female time use, and draws on this analysis to explore the linkages between credit and women's empowerment. A study of time use can help understand these linkages, because if credit is intended to improve women's livelihoods, it can also be expected to influence the way women allocate their time. Its other advantages are that it does not suffer from much time lag and can be objectively mea…
Microfinance and Gender
This special collection examines the claim that microfinance promotes gender equality. The focus is on three areas of the debate: first, the question of how successful microfinance has been in empowering women; second, whether and how negative gender discrimination operates within the sector; third, how power relations within and beyond the household shape the context and outcomes of microfinance initiatives. The papers in this collection demonst…
The Cost of Empowerment
Poor women borrow from multiple sources. This study examines whether the source of debt matters for women’s role in household financial decisions. Drawing on a household survey from rural Tamil Nadu, we categorise women’s loans along the lines of accessibility and formality into ‘planned loans’ and ‘instant loans’. We find that ‘instant loans’ support women’s bargaining power in various types of household financial decisions, whereas ‘planned loa…
Does Foreign Aid Improve Gender Performance in Recipient Countries
An explicit goal of foreign aid is to promote female empowerment and gender equality in developing countries. We investigate if foreign aid achieves this intended goal by examining its impact on gender performance of recipient countries at the country level. Employing structural equation models, our results suggest that aid alone, even when targeted to directly improve gender outcomes, is unlikely to shift systemic inequalities. Aid will need to …
Exploring the role of strategic environmental assessment in cultural heritage tourism planning
Sustainability is critical to the delivery of cultural heritage tourism (CHT) since its foundation to attract tourist relies on the preservation of the historic and cultural offerings of the host community. CHT destinations within urban and semi-urban heritage sites in emerging economies find this particularly challenging. To explore this issue and its associated challenges, this paper brings together an interdisciplinary team representing discip…
Leading the Fight Against the Pandemic
Since the start of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the relationship between national female leaders and their effectiveness in handling the COVID-crisis has received a lot of media attention. In this paper we scrutinise this association more systematically. We ask if there is a significant and systematic difference by gender of the national leader in the number of COVID-cases and deaths in the first quarter of the pandemic. We also examine diff…
Gender Inclusivity of India’s Digital Financial Revolution for Attainment of SDGs
Feminist Ideologies at Work
This study explores the role of feminist ideologies in enabling entrepreneurship among disadvantaged women in societies entrenched in structures of patriarchy. The study draws on evidence from Lijjat, a women’s cooperative in India. Through careful consideration of the context and relations in which marginalized women were able to initiate, develop, and successfully grow a business, results draw two key conclusions. First, pragmatist feminist ide…
Patriarchy and the Pandemic
Unpaid housework done by men and women in dual-earner households goes to the heart of gender inequality. We explore this issue for urban India during the COVID-19 lockdown when work from home spiked and housework increased. We examine the extent to which women’s responsibility for housework and help given by partners changed during lockdown and any systematic differences in chores done by men and women. We conceptualize and empirically measure ba…
From sanitation to safety
Community norms, peer influence, and women’s digital financial inclusion
We examine how gendered community norms and peer behaviour effect women’s adoption of digital financial services in India. • Results show that peer usage within communities plays a key role in shaping women’s uptake of digital financial services. • Restrictive gender norms, particularly those that limit women’s mobility, substantially reduce the likelihood of adoption. • Financial literacy efforts and mobile access should align with community-bas…
Economics (13 works) · Political science (12 works) · Economic growth (11 works) · Development economics (9 works) · Microfinance and Financial Inclusion (9 works) · Geography (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Empowerment (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Demographic economics (5 works)