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Microfinance And Women's Empowerment: An Empirical Evidence In Vietnam, Anh Phuoc Thien Nguyen
Microfinance And Women's Empowerment: An Empirical Evidence In Vietnam, Anh Phuoc Thien Nguyen
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The study measures an impact of microfinance on women’s empowerment with a case study on TYM Funds, a Vietnamese microfinance program initiated by Vietnam’s Women Union. The purpose of the study is to examine whether microfinance participants are more empowered than non-members, and whether membership duration enhances the degree of empowerment among the clients. The author constructs the empowerment indices based on three subdimensions: Economic Security, Household Major Decision, and Community Involvement. The empirical data is built on TYM Funds’ impact assessment survey, which was conducted on 544 women including in-training clients, new clients and mature clients. A logistic regression …