Associational Participation and Network Expansion: Microcredit Self-Help Groups and Poor Women’s Social Ties in Rural India.
Group-based microcredit has become a globally adopted anti-poverty intervention. An important institutional variant of this is the self-help group (SHG) model, where non-commercialized lending is done through neighborhood-based savings and lending associations. We examine the effect of women's parti...
| Publicado en: | Social Forces Vol. 95; no. 4; pp. 1695 - 1725 |
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