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- Bali Swain, Ranjula, et al.
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Does microfinance empower women? : Evidence from self-help groups in India
- 2009
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Ingår i: International review of applied economics. - : Taylor&Francis Group. - 0269-2171 .- 1465-3486. ; 23:5, s. 541-556
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Microfinance programmes like the Self Help Bank Linkage Program in India have been increasingly promoted for their positive economic impact and the belief that they empower women. However, only a few studies rigorously examine the link between microfinance and women's empowerment. This article contributes to this discussion by arguing that women's empowerment takes place when women challenge the existing social norms and culture, to effectively improve their well-being. It empirically validates this hypothesis by using quasi-experimental household sample data collected for five states in India for 2000 and 2003. A general model is estimated by employing appropriate techniques to treat the ordinal variables in order to estimate the impact of the Self Help Group (SHG) on women's empowerment for 2000 and 2003. The results strongly demonstrate that on average, there is a significant increase in the empowerment of women in the SHG members group. No such significant change is observed however, for the members of the control group. The elegance of the result lies in the fact that the group of SHG participants show clear evidence of a significant and higher empowerment, while allowing for the possibility that some members might have been more empowered than others.
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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, et al.
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Microfinance, Vulnerability and Risk in Low Income Households
- 2014
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Ingår i: International review of applied economics. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0269-2171 .- 1465-3486. ; 28:5, s. 539-561
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We investigate if participation in the Indian Self Help Group (SHG) program results in reducing poverty and vulnerability. The theoretical framework examines the mechanisms through which the pecuniary and non-pecuniary effects of the SHG impacts the households’ ability to manage risk. We use a vulnerability measure that quantifies the welfare loss associated with poverty and different types of risks, on an Indian panel survey data. Our results show that SHG members are less vulnerable compared with a group of non-SHG (control) members. About 80% of the vulnerability faced by the households is poverty related.
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- Behrenz, Lars, 1964-, et al.
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An Efficiency Analysis of Swedish Employment Offices
- 2004
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Ingår i: International review of applied economics. - Abingdon UK : Routledge. - 0269-2171 .- 1465-3486. ; 18:4, s. 471-482
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this paper the method–production frontier analysis is used to analyse differences in efficiency between different Swedish Employment Offices. Earlier empirical labour market policy evaluation studies have utilised various measures that, however, do not take into consideration differences between organisation units. The main result of this investigation is that employment offices show major differences in the efficiency with which they carry out their job matching services.
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- Bengtsson, Erik, 1984, et al.
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Financial effects in historic consumption and investment functions
- 2020
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Ingår i: International Review of Applied Economics. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0269-2171 .- 1465-3486. ; 34:3, s. 304-326
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The globalfinancial crisis has highlighted the importance offinan-cial factors on economic performance. Most of the existing research analyses the contemporary experience, and especially the 1980s onwards. This paper investigates the effects of stock prices, realestate prices and debt on consumption and investment expenditures by estimating consumption and investment equations for about 110 years of data for Britain, France, Norway and Sweden. We find positive debt effects on consumption in three of four countries, but no consistent effects of stock prices and house prices. Effects on consumption are stronger in the more market-based economy of Britain than in the more state-oriented economies of France, Norway and Sweden: in Britain but not in the other countries, consumption has increased in response to stock and house prices. We find positive effects of stock prices on investment in all four countries. Credit expansion boosts investment in some of the countries while house prices seem to have become more influential for investment after 1980. The results indicate that there is interesting variation in financial effects over time, and point forward for possible research on the interaction between financial variables and the real economy since the early twentieth century.
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- Kravtsova, Victoria
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Productivity change and externalities : Empirical evidence from Hungary
- 2014
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Ingår i: International review of applied economics. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0269-2171 .- 1465-3486. ; 28:1, s. 102-125
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper contributes to the analysis of the impact of externalities on the host country's total factor productivity by taking into account different dimensions of spillover effects. Namely, engagement in exporting and foreign ownership is generally perceived as being beneficial to individual firms and the economy as a whole. The approach used in the current research accounts for different internal as well as external factors that individual firms face and evaluates the effect on changes in productivity, technology as well as the efficiency of domestic firms. The empirical analysis focuses on Hungary. While the country leads the group of post-socialist countries in the amount of attracted foreign direct investments (FDI) the effect of this policy on the economy remains unclear. The research finds that different externalities play a different role in productivity, technological and efficiency change in different types of firms and sectors of the economy.
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- Sellenthin, Mark, 1974-, et al.
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How innovative is Swedish industry? A factor and cluster analysis of CIS II
- 2002
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Ingår i: International review of applied economics. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0269-2171 .- 1465-3486. ; 16:3, s. 319-331
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article provides a description and analysis of innovation in Swedish manufacturing, based on data generated by the second Community Innovation Survey (CIS II). Following a brief introduction, CIS II, which is the first CIS survey ever conducted in Sweden, is discussed. The purpose is to indicate the relevance and significance of data from CIS II. Methodology is then addressed and a sectoral analysis of the data from CIS II is presented. The important dimension of the direction of innovative effort in different sectors is addressed by means of a cluster analysis that distinguishes between strategies regarding markets and competitors. A summary and a section on policy implications conclude.
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- Stephan, Andreas
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Assessing the Contribution of Public Capital to Private Production : Evidence from the German Manufacturing Sector
- 2003
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Ingår i: International review of applied economics. - : Routledge. - 0269-2171 .- 1465-3486. ; 17:4, s. 399-418
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Using time-series cross-section data from the manufacturing sector of the 11 West German 'Bundesländer' (Federal States) from 1970 to 1996, I examine the impact of public capital on private production. My econometric analysis explicitly takes into account four of the most frequent specification issues in the context of time-series crosssection data analysis: serial correlation, groupwise heteroscedasticity, cross-sectional correlation and non-stationarity of data. For all approaches and tested specifications, I find that public capital is a significant input for production in the manufacturing sector. Moreover, I find that differences in public capital endowment can explain long-term differences in productivity across the Bundesländer. One tentative conclusion that can be drawn from this finding is that differences in public capital endowment might also explain a part of the still-existing productivity gap between manufacturing in East and West Germany. However, I emphasise that the existence of positive effects of public capital on private production is a necessary, but not a sufficient condition for concluding that public investments should be boosted in the future.
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