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Microcredit and the Discourse of Empowerment: A Case Study in Jinotega, Nicaragua [PDF]

open access: yesBerkeley Undergraduate Journal, 2013
Microcredit has become an increasingly popular strategy for improving the social, economic, and health status of women in the developing world. NGOs, government agencies and private enterprise have all put forth credit initiatives geared toward “women’s empowerment.” Despite the ubiquity of such programs, there is very little consensus about what it ...
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Perceptions of Empowerment : A Minor Field Study of the Concept Discrepancy between the Dominating Development Discourse and the Reality of Women in Microcredit Groups

open access: yes, 2006
The majority of the poor people in the world today are women. Women are not only more poor men, but also more vulnerable to the effects of poverty. The positive benefits of development do not reach women in equal measures to men, and the proportion of women among the poor is constantly increasing.
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Women's financial literacy: A bibliometric study on current research and future directions. [PDF]

open access: yesHeliyon, 2023
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