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Economic Empowerment of Women through Microcredit in South-west Region of Bangladesh
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Iosr, Journals Hamid, Fauzia Apurba, Roy |
| Copyright Year | 2015 |
| Abstract | This study tries to reveal the role of microcredit in enhancing women empowerment in south-west region of Bangladesh, especially in Batiaghata Upazila of Khulna District. The sample size is 80 which has been selected randomly, and, is comprising of equal number of microcredit taker and non-microcredit taker women of Batiaghata Upazila which has been selected randomly, engaged in poultry farming. Cumulative Empowerment Index (CEI) is constructed and multiple linear regression model is used to find out women empowerment status. By using CEI, the study has found that the microcredit taker women are economically more empowered than the non-microcredit taker women. By using multiple linear regression model, the study also finds that, contribution to household income, monthly investment, and new addition to asset ownership of the respondents have statistically significant effect on women empowerment. But status regarding microcredit taking gives statistically insignificant result. Above all, based on the empirical result, it can be concluded that status regarding microcredit has a positive effect on economic empowerment of women in the study area. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.6084/m9.figshare.1339981.v1 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.iosrjournals.org/iosr-jef/papers/Vol6-Issue2/Version-1/F06213239.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1339981.v1 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
