Husbands and Wives. The powers and perils of participation in a microfinance cooperative for female entrepreneurs

Felix Meier zu Selhausen () and Erik Stam

No 13-10, Working Papers from Utrecht School of Economics

Abstract: This study on female entrepreneurs in Western Uganda provides empirical evidence on the socio-economic effects of participation in a microfinance cooperative of both the female entrepreneur and her husband. Participation by female entrepreneurs in a microfinance cooperative is not an unconditional blessing: even though it does deliver higher household incomes, it might also deteriorate the female’s household decision-making power when her husband participates in the same self-help group of the microfinance cooperative. This offers new insights for development policy and for entrepreneurship scholars to study the bright and dark sides of microfinance.

Keywords: microfinance; cooperatives; female entrepreneurship; coffee; Uganda (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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