Women Empowerment and Credit Control: An Empirical Analysis on Credit Recipients of Grameen Bank in Bangladesh

Rafiqul Bhuyan Rafiq, Shahnaz Abdullah and Hamid Ahmadi

The IUP Journal of Financial Economics, 2007, vol. V, issue 2, 21-30

Abstract: This paper analyzes the relationship between women’s decision-making regarding loan use, and their empowerment. Using a new analytical framework, it reassesses the effect of decision-making on empowerment index. It also presents the hypotheses and tests contrasting situations; decision-making by men, by women and by both together, with regard to the empowerment index. Using primary data from Grameen Bank, the pioneer of microfinance institutions, the authors conclude that women are more empowered when they are involved in decision-making, either solely or jointly with their husbands. On the contrary, when the women are not involved in the decision-making of the loan use, they are less empowered.

Date: 2007
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