The weight of institutions on women's capabilities

Muriel Gilardone, Isabelle Guérin and Jane Palier
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Jane Palier: CALW - Centre Auguste et Léon Walras - UL2 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2 - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: The objective of this paper is to assess the links between institutions and quality of life, within Nussbaum's capability framework approach, exploring a relevant empirical issue: microfinance. Microfinance appears more and more as a tool for women's empowerment. Available results of impact studies call for circumspection; microfinance can free women from certain links of dependence. But microfinance can also forge new kinds of dependence and subordination, thereby strengthening the disparities between men and women, but also among women themselves.

Keywords: microfinance; capabilities; institutions; Martha Nussbaum; Amartya Sen; women; empowerment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002-09-09
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Published in Promoting Women's Capabilities: Examining Nussbaum's Capabilities Approach, Sep 2002, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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