{"title":"Saving as a Path for Female Empowerment and Entrepreneurship in Rural Peru","authors":"M. Daher, A. Rosati, Andrea Jaramillo","doi":"10.1177/14649934211035219","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Much research has identified the difficulties of promoting women’s empowerment using microcredit, but there has been little research on the potential for empowerment from promoting women’s savings. We address this gap through a qualitative study of three women’s savings programmes in the Highlands of Peru. The results reveal changes in several domains of women’s lives (economic, personal and relational), emphasizing that these programmes enable them to think about the future, expand their social support networks, and become entrepreneurs. We conclude that savings interventions have considerable advantage over microcredit programmes for facilitating female empowerment and that the merits of these interventions go far beyond financial inclusion with significant impacts on women’s psychosocial well-being and broader empowerment.","PeriodicalId":47042,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Development Studies","volume":"22 1","pages":"32 - 55"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7000,"publicationDate":"2021-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"4","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Progress in Development Studies","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14649934211035219","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"DEVELOPMENT STUDIES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Much research has identified the difficulties of promoting women’s empowerment using microcredit, but there has been little research on the potential for empowerment from promoting women’s savings. We address this gap through a qualitative study of three women’s savings programmes in the Highlands of Peru. The results reveal changes in several domains of women’s lives (economic, personal and relational), emphasizing that these programmes enable them to think about the future, expand their social support networks, and become entrepreneurs. We conclude that savings interventions have considerable advantage over microcredit programmes for facilitating female empowerment and that the merits of these interventions go far beyond financial inclusion with significant impacts on women’s psychosocial well-being and broader empowerment.
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Progress in Development Studies is an exciting new forum for the discussion of development issues, ranging from: · Poverty alleviation and international aid · The international debt crisis · Economic development and industrialization · Environmental degradation and sustainable development · Political governance and civil society · Gender relations · The rights of the child