ECONIS Select – Women as Foundation for Rural Development Policy

07/2010

Selected for the Global Economic Symposium 2010

According to the Food and Agriculture Organization, rural women are responsible for half of the world’s food production. They produce between 60 and 80 percent of the food in most developing countries and are also the main producers of the world’s staple crops (rice, wheat,and maize) which provide up to 90 percent of the rural poor’s food intake. As such, women are fundamental for guaranteeing food security and household maintenance not only for their own family, but also for the community in general.

• How to empower women financially through improved access to credit and finance?
  Women’s efforts to initiate or expand incomegenerating activities are constrained by their limited access to credit and other financial services such as savings and deposits. In spite of recent efforts to increase rural women’s participation in financial markets (e.g., via microcredit programs) women still are disproportionately credit constrained and unbanked. Government policies and creative business initiatives are needed to provide sustainable solutions that can remove these constraints.
• How to eliminate illiteracy among women and improve the quality of their education?

Literature selected from our database ECONIS:

• Title: Empowering women to achieve food security / ed. by Agnes R. Quisumbing ...
  Corporate body: International Food Policy Research Institute
  Published: Washington, DC: IFPRI, 2001
  Subject heading: Food security / Women / Agriculture / Agricultural Policy / Policy towards women / Agrarian reform / Agrarian constitution / Developing countries
• Title: Women's control over economic resources and access to financial resources / prep. for ESCWA by Mona Chemali Khalaf
  Published: New York, NY: United Nations, 2009
  Subject heading: Women / Gender equality / Women's labour force participation / Microfinance / ESCWA countries / Arab countries
  Links:
  http://www.escwa.un.org/information/publications/edit/upload/ecw-09-2-e.pdf
  Table of contents
• Title: Microfinance and women's empowerment / edited by Surendra K. Kaushik, V. Rengarajan
  Published: New Delhi: Serials Publications, 2010
  Subject heading: Microfinance / Poverty alleviation / Women / Self-government / India
  Link: Table of contents
• Title: Microcredit and women / by M. Lakshmi Narasaiah
  Published: New Delhi: Discovery Publishing House, 2008
  Subject heading: Women / Microfinance / Rural development / Rural poverty / Poverty alleviation / India
  Link: Table of contents
• Article: Are women more credit constrained?: experimental evidence on gender and microenterprise returns / by Suresh de Mel, David McKenzie, and Christopher Woodruff
  In: American economic journal / Applied economics. - Nashville, Tenn.: American Economic Association, ISSN 1945-7782, ZDB-ID 24423841. - Bd. 1.2009, 3, S. 1-32
  Subject heading: Small and medium-sized enterprises / Microfinance / Borrowing constraints / Women / Sri Lanka
• Title: Gender in agriculture sourcebook / The World Bank ...
  Published: Washington, DC: World Bank, 2009
  Extent: XXIV, 764 S. : graph. Darst.
  Series: Agriculture and rural development
  ISBN: 978-0-8213-7587-7 978-0-8213-7588-4
  Link: Table of contents
• Title: Does women's status matter for food security?: evidence from Bangladesh / Mohammad A. Razzaque and Mohammad Mokammel Karim Toufique
  Published: Helsinki: UNU-WIDER, Nov. 2007
• Title: Women and food security in South Asia: current issues and emerging concerns / Nira Ramachandran
  Published: Nov. 2006
  Subject heading: Food security /| Gender / Women's labour force participation /| Women / South Asia
  Link: http://www.wider.unu.edu/publications/rps/rps2006/rp2006-131.pdf
• Article: Women, food security, and development in less-industrialized societies: contributions and challenges for the new century / Stephen J. Scanlan
  In: World development. - Amsterdam: Elsevier Science, ISSN 0305-750X, ZDB-ID 1853399. - Bd. 32.2004, 11, S. 1807-1829
  Subject heading: Women / Economic development / Food security / Developing countries / Gender equality / 2000
• Title: Women farmers and commercial ventures: increasing food security in developing countries / ed. by Anita Spring
  Published: Boulder u.a.: Rienner, c 2000
  Subject heading: Farmers / Women / Food security / Agriculture / Subsistence farming / Women workers / Market integration / Developing countries
• Title: Evaluating the impact of microcredit on women's empowerment in Pakistan / Salman Asim
  Published: Lahore: Lahore School of Economics, 2009
  Subject heading: Microfinance / Women / Gender equality / Pakistan
• Article: Marketing micro-finance to women: integrating global with local / Robert Rugimbana and Anita Spring
  In: International journal of nonprofit and voluntary sector marketing . - Chichester: Wiley & Sons, ISSN 1465-4520, ZDB-ID 22118652. - Bd. 14.2009, 2, S. 149-154
  Subject heading: Microfinance / Women / East Africa
• Article: Conflicts over credit: re-evaluating the empowerment potential of loans to women in rural Bangladesh / Naila Kabeer
  In: Microfinance. - London u.a.: Routledge, ISBN 0-415-37532-0. - 2009, S. 108-142
  Subject heading: Women / Microfinance / Social status / Rural area / Bangladesh
• Title: Micro finance and rural development in India / ed. by S. K. Das ...
  Published: New Delhi: New Century Publ., 2008
  Subject heading: Microfinance / Rural development / Rural poverty / Poverty alleviation / Women / Self help / Orissa / India
  Link: Table of contents
• Title: The vulnerability of 'self-help': women and microfinance in South India / K. Kalpana
  Published: Brighton: Institute of Development Studies, 2008
  Subject heading: Self help (Developing countries) / Microfinance / Women / Development Policy / Influence of government / Rural area / India / 2005-2006
  Link: http://www.ids.ac.uk/ids/bookshop/wp/wp303.pdf
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• Title: Micro finance and poverty eradicatio : Indian and global experiences / edited by Daniel Lazar and P. Palanichamy
  Published: New Delhi: New Century Publications, 2008
  Subject heading: Microfinance / Financing of rural development / Self help (Developing countries) / Agricultural development / Bank lending / Poverty alleviation / Social conditions / Women / India / World
  Link: Table of contents
• Article: Does microfinance empower women?: evidence from self-help groups in India / Ranjula Bali Swain and Fan Yang Wallentin
  In: International review of applied economics. - Abingdon: Routledge, ISSN 0269-2171, ZDB-ID 6264293. - Bd. 23.2009, 5, S. 541-556
• Article: Empowering women with micro finance: evidence from Bangladesh / Mark M. Pitt; Shahidur R. Khandker; Jennifer Cartwright
  In: Economic development and cultural change. - Chicago, Ill.: Univ. of Chicago Press, ISSN 0013-0079, ZDB-ID 16883. - Bd. 54.2006, 4, S. 791-831
  Subject heading: Women / Policy towards women / Bangladesh / Microfinance / 1998-1999
• Article: From access to empowerment: widening the debate on gender and sustainable micro-finance / Linda Mayoux
  In: Journal für Entwicklungspolitik. - Wien: Mandelbaum Ed. Südwind, ISSN 0258-2384, ZDB-ID 7379432. - Bd. 16.2000, 3, S. 247-273
  Subject heading: Women / Credit / Informal credit market / Developing countries
• Title: Women's economic empowerment as smart economics: a dialogue on policy options; February 22 - 23, 2007, Berlin, Germany / Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development in cooperation with ...
  Corporate body: Deutschland / Bundesministerium für Wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung
  Published: Bonn, Berlin: InWEnt gGmbH, 2007
  Subject heading: Women / Policy towards women / Gender equality / Gender discrimination / Developing countries / World / Gender Action Plan
• Title: Poverty, education and development / Francis Godwyll ..., eds.
  Published: New York, NY: Nova Science Publ., c 2008
  Subject heading: Poverty / Gender / Women / Globalization / Poverty alleviation / Development Policy / Education / Democratization / Developing countries
• Title: Economic or non-economic factors: what empowers women? / Ranjula Bali Swain and Fang Yang Wallentin
  Published: 2008
  Subject heading: Microfinance / Self help (Developing countries) / Women / Impact analysis / India / 2003
  Link: http://www.nek.uu.se/Pdf/wp2008_11.pdf
• Title: Globalisation at the crossroads / ed. by Sawalia Bihari Verma ...
  Published: New Delhi: Sarup & Sons, 2008
  Subject heading: Globalization / Economic development / Economic Growth / Poverty / Deregulation / Employee training / Education / Women / Women's labour force participation / Agriculture / Small farm / Marketing / Sustainable development / India / Developing countries
  Link: Table of contents