Improving the nutritional status of women and children in South Asia remains a high public
health and development priority. Women's groups are emerging as platforms for delivering …

This paper reviews the evaluation literature on policies and programmes designed to
promote women's livelihood capabilities across the life course to elicit lessons for the …

Women's self-help groups (SHGs) have increasingly been used as a vehicle for social,
political, and economic empowerment as well as a platform for service delivery. Although a …

India s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) is one of the largest public
works programs globally. Understanding the impacts of NREGS and the pathway through …

In many countries, women do not share the same decision-making power as the men
around them. This preexisting discrimination suggests an imbalance in decision-making …

Better and more meaningful financial inclusion may prove to be the key to unlocking the
potential for micro and small enterprises to grow, reducing the exposure of poor and rural …

Microfinance groups are a prominent source of small-scale rural credit in many developing
countries. In India, evidence of the impact of the now ubiquitous women-only savings and …

We use a three-round, 4013-household panel from Andhra Pradesh, together with
administrative data and village and population census data, to explore the welfare effects of …

In many developing countries, many households, especially in rural areas, are still heavily
reliant on solid biomass as a cooking fuel, despite its negative health and environmental …

This article explores the impact of Self-Help Group (SHG) participation on the frequency of
domestic violence in rural India. The study hypothesizes that SHG participation can raise …