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- Bali Swain, Ranjula, et al.
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Does Self Help Group Participation Lead to Asset Creation?
- 2009
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Ingår i: World Development. - : Elsevier BV. - 0305-750X .- 1873-5991. ; 37:10, s. 1674-1682
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We evaluate the effect of Self Help Group participation on a long term impact parameter, namely asset creation. Indian Self Help Groups (SHGs) are unique in that they are mainly NGO-formed microfinance groups but later funded by commercial banks. The results reveal that longer membership in SHGs positively impacts asset creation, robust to various asset specifications. With longer participation in SHGs, members move away from pure agriculture as an income source towards other sources such as livestock income. Training by NGOs positively impacts asset creation but the type of SHG linkage per se has no effect.
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- Bali Swain, Ranjula, et al.
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Evaluating the Impact of Training in Self Help Groups in India
- 2014
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Ingår i: European Journal of Development Research. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0957-8811 .- 1743-9728. ; 26:5, s. 870-885
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article evaluates the impact of widespread training programmes provided by the Self-Help Group (SHG) programme. Indian SHGs are primarily non-governmental organisation (NGO)-formed microfinance groups funded by commercial banks. This article employs evaluation techniques appropriate for current borrowers of a national programme. In addition, the article addresses the double selection issue of membership and training. We correct for membership selection bias using a pipeline method. We then account for training endogeneity with propensity score matching. The results of regression-adjusted matching (which controls for both participation and training selection bias) reveal that specialised training, such as business training, has a greater impact on assets than general training. Furthermore, NGOs should specialise in business training. Sensitivity analyses confirm the robustness of these results.
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- Bali Swain, Ranjula, et al.
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Factors Empowering Women in Indian Self Help Group Program
- 2012
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Ingår i: International review of applied economics. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0269-2171 .- 1465-3486. ; 26:4, s. 425-444
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We evaluate the impact of economic and non-economic factors on women’s empowerment of Self-Help Group (SHG) members. We estimate a structural equation model (SEM) and correct for ordinality in the data to account for the impact of the latent factors on women’s empowerment. Our SEM results reveal that for the SHG members, the economic factor is the most effective in empowering women. Greater autonomy and social attitudes also have a significant women empowerment impact.
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- Bali Swain, Ranjula
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Financial Services for low-income households
- 2010
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Ingår i: Handbook of human development and management. - New Delhi, India : Serials Publications. - 9788183873703 ; , s. 173-205
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- Bali Swain, Ranjula, 1968-, et al.
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Group-based financial services in the global south : Examining evidence on social efficacy
- 2021
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Ingår i: The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Economics. - London : Routledge. - 9780429020612 - 9780367074142 ; , s. 433-440
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Women’s community-based savings clubs were observed as early as the late 19th century across the Global South. Microfinance promised to provide financial services to the poor (predominantly women in the Global South) that lack access to formal banking. This chapter provides a synthesis of the existing evidence on the impact credit services have had. It covers two specific issues: the impact of credit on poverty and its impact on women’s empowerment. The chapter uses an analytical framework drawn from a coalescence of basic methodological principles within feminist economics scholarship described by Power as the “social provisioning approach.” Specifically, it also uses well-being as a central measure of economic success and the notion that human agency is important. From the perspective of a “social provisioning” framework, impact on income alone would give us at best a partial picture on the social efficacy of credit.
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- Bali Swain, Ranjula, et al.
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Last Night in Sweden? Using Gaussian Processes to Study Changing Demographics at the Level of Municipalities
- 2020
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Ingår i: European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice. - : Brill Nijhoff. - 0928-9569 .- 1571-8174. ; 28:1, s. 46-75
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The increased immigration in Western Europe has been linked by some political parties to increased criminality rates. We study the statistical relationship between the proportion of foreign-born to three types of reported criminality - rapes, burglary, and assault. The analysis is based on Swedish municipality level data for 2002-2014, years with signicant immigration. Using non-parametric Gaussian processes models, we find that while reported rape rates have increased, they are likely best explained by changes in reporting. The reported burglary rates have decreased, while reported assault rates are positively correlated to the proportion of foreign-born residents in the municipality.
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- Bali Swain, Ranjula, 1968-, et al.
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Microfinance and Poverty Reduction in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam
- 2008
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Ingår i: African and Asian Studies. - 1569-2094 .- 1569-2108. ; 7:2-3, s. 191-215
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- One common solution to resolve poverty is providing microfinance to the poor. Microfinance has been claimed to positively impact the livelihoods of the poor through accumulation of social, human, financial, natural, and physical assets. This paper empirically examines if microfinance contributes to the reduction of poverty in the Mekong Delta region of Vietnam. Analysing household survey data collected in 2006, from Hoa An commune in the Mekong Delta area, it investigates if microfinance leads to accumulation of assets. It further investigates how poor women are enabled to adopt livelihood strategies that lead to poverty reduction. Information is collected by implementing a household survey. This is further supplemented with qualitative information from Participatory Rural Appraisal, interviews with key informants and focus group discussions with members and non-members of the microfinance programs in the area. The main findings suggest that the process of accumulation of assets, leads to creation of livelihoods that result in increased household income and poverty reduction.
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- Bali Swain, Ranjula
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Microfinance and Women empowerment
- 2007. - 1
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Ingår i: Microfinance. - Hyderabad, India : ICFAI University Press. - 9788131407981
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