Ashraf, Nava; Karlan, Dean; Yin, Wesley - In: World Development 38 (2010) 3, pp. 333-344
Summary Female "empowerment" has increasingly become a policy goal, both as an end to itself and as a means to achieving other development goals. Microfinance in particular has often been argued, but not without controversy, to be a tool for empowering women. Here, using a randomized controlled...