Kenya for a randomly selected sample of poor daily income earners (such as market vendors), and collected a unique dataset … no interest and featured substantial withdrawal fees, take-up and usage was high among women. In addition, we find that … the savings accounts had substantial, positive impacts on productive investment levels and expenditures for women, but had …

commercialization of vegetable trade. This indicates that besides the absence of an average GPG, women are disadvantaged in larger scale … as women are traditionally active in small scale local vegetable trade but not in large scale trade in the survey region …. Also, it is a warning that women might be left behind in an increasingly commercializing market, even though they …

This paper sets out to investigate the wellbeing of women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). It undertakes … spatial and temporal comparisons of women's wellbeing using data from the Demographic and Health Survey and the Multiple … improvement and deterioration of women's welfare across the DRC over a three-year period (2007 - 10). …