Microcredit: Empowerment and Disempowerment of Rural Women in Ghana

John Kuumuori Ganle, Kwadwo Afriyie and Alexander Yao Segbefia

World Development, 2015, vol. 66, issue C, 335-345

Abstract: Microcredit for women is a commonly used strategy for women empowerment. Based on longitudinal qualitative research with rural women who are involved in an NGO-run micro-lending program in Ghana, this paper examines the empowerment effects of rural women’s access to microcredit.

Keywords: microcredit; women; empowerment; disempowerment; Ghana (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.08.027

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