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Microcredit Programs and Women's Decision-Making Status

Further Evidence from Bangladesh

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ID11401735
AuthorsNajma R Sharif (corresponding author)
Year2004
Volume25
Issue3
Pages465-480
Publication date2004-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCanadian Journal of Development Studies/Revue canadienne d études du développement (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0225-5189 • E-ISSN: 2158-9100
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/02255189.2004.9668989
OpenAlexW2012736881
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited11

This paper examines the impact of participation in the microcredit programs of a non-governmental organization (the Association for Social Advancement, asa) on the decision-making status of poor Bangladeshi women, the targets of these programs. Using survey data, we examine this relationship by estimating a five-level ordered probit model in which decision-making status is represented by a ranking in six decision-making domains, controlling for the effects of other factors. We find that the improvements in decision-making status are quite modest, except in domains that reflect the existing household division of labour, and that program selection features are at least partly responsible for the observed positive impact, despite efforts to adjust for them. We conclude that asa type credit programs are probably not especially significant in terms of improving women's decision-making status, at least in the short to medium term, likely because social norms, which play an important role in this regard, change slowly. RÉSUMÉ L'article concerne l'impact de la participation aux programmes de micro-crédit d'une organisation non gouvernementale, l'Association for Social Advancement (asa), sur le statut décisionnel de femmes pauvres du Bangladesh auxquelles s'adressent ces programmes. À l'aide des données d'un sondage, nous examinons cette relation par des calculs estimatifs avec un modèle de probit à cinq niveaux où le statut décisionnel correspond au classement dans six domaines de décision, en contrôlant les effets d'autres facteurs. Nous avons constaté que l'amélioration du statut décisionnel est très modeste, sauf dans les domaines qui reflètent la division existante du travail dans les ménages. Nous avons observé que les caractéristiques de sélection pour les programmes sont au moins en partie responsables de l'impact positif noté malgré les efforts pour en tenir compte. Nous en concluons que les programmes de crédit comme ceux de l'asa ne sont probablement pas particulièrement significatifs pour améliorer le statut décisionnel des femmes, du moins à court ou à moyen terme. Ceci tient sans doute au fait que les normes sociales, qui jouent un rôle important en la matière, changent Ientement

Business · Demographic economics · Econometrics · Economic growth · Economics · Microfinance · Ordered probit · Probit model · Public economics · Ranking (information retrieval · Selection (genetic algorithm · Agricultural risk and resilience · Computer Science · Microfinance and Financial Inclusion · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare

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