Macro Promises of Microcredit--a Case of a Local Esusu in Rural Ghana (Report) (Case Study)
Journal of International Women's Studies 2005, Nov, 7, 1
-
- $5.99
-
- $5.99
Publisher Description
Abstract Microcredit's three big promises are one, to reduce poverty; two, to empower women; and three, to enhance family planning knowledge, attitudes and practices. Using a mixed-method approach, this study examines 204 women members and non-members of local eSusus in rural Ghana. Quantitative chi square analysis indicates no associations between membership in an eSusu and relative wealth; women's autonomy family planning practices, knowledge or use and reproductive control. Meanwhile, the qualitative data shows that women members believe that eSusu are extremely useful for acquiring working capital to be reinvested in their small market ventures, and are helpful with school fee and other household expenditures.
More Books Like This
Women's Entrepreneurship and Microfinance
2018
Poor Women's Participation in Credit-Based Self-Employment: The Impact on Their Empowerment, Fertility, Contraceptive Use, And Fertility Desire in Rural Bangladesh (Report)
1995
Grameen Bank Multiple Services in Bangladesh
2018
Women Empowerment through Capacity Building: The Role of Microfinance
1991
Employment Options for Low-Income Women: Microenterprise Versus the Labor Market.
2004
Women and Informal Credit: Lessons from Moretele, South Africa (Report)
2007
More Books by Journal of International Women's Studies
Sex Trafficking: The Global Market in Women and Children (Critical Essay)
2007
A History of Women in Afghanistan: Lessons Learnt for the Future Or Yesterdays and Tomorrow: Women in Afghanistan.
2003
Experiences of Women War-Torture Survivors in Uganda: Implications for Health and Human Rights.
2007
The Female Body in Margaret Atwood's the Edible Woman and Lady Oracle (Critical Essay)
2008
Iranian Women and the Civil Rights Movement in Iran: Feminism Interacted (Report)
2007
Judith Butler: Philosophical Encounters of the Third Kind (Video Recording Review)
2008