Microfinance and its Role in Women Empowerment

EL Hadidi, Hala Helmy

doi:10.21608/aja.2016.17865

Microfinance and its Role in Women Empowerment

نوع المستند : بحوث باللغة الإنجلیزیة

المؤلف

Hala Helmy EL Hadidi

Business Department, Faculty of Business Administration, Economics and Political Science The British University in Egypt

10.21608/aja.2016.17865

المستخلص

Microcredit has become one of the most important tools used to fight poverty and to enhance families’ wellbeing. This research aims at testing the following hypothesis: microcredit is positively linked to women’s socio-economic wellbeing in Cairo; it uses primary source data and has a public policy orientation. The results confirmed what was previously reported in the literature, namely the high correlation between microcredit and children’s education, income and assets and disproved studies that found microcredit to improve health and harmony in the family.

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