Improving Women's Access to Credit

Bibliography on Women and Credit

This list is incomplete and is in progress ...

Berger, Marguerite (1989), "Giving Women Credit: The Strengths and Limitations of Credit as a Tool for Alleviating Poverty" World Development, Volume 17, Number 7, pp. 1017-1032.
Bhatt, E. (1989). Grind for Work. Ahmedabad: Slf-Employed Women's Association.
Blayney, Robert (1979), "El Salvador Second Urban Project: Impact of Small Scale Enterprise (SSE) Credit Programm on Women Enterpreneurs." Report prepared for the World Bank, Office of the Advisor on Women in Development. Washington DC: The World Bank Mimeo
Blayney, Robert and Lycette, Margaret (1983), "Improving the Access of Women-headed Households to Solanda Housing: A feasible Down PAyment Assistance Scheme." Report prepared for USAID/Ecuador. Washington DC: International Center for Research on Women.
Chen, Marta (1996), Beyond Credit: A Subsector Approach to Promoting Women's Enterprises. Aga Khan Foundation Canada.
DeLancey, Virginia (1981). "The Role of Credit Unions in Development for West African Women." Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the African Studies Association, Bloomington, Indiana, October 1981.
Due Jean M. and Summary, Rebecca (1979), "Constraints to Women and Development in Africa". Illinois Agricultural Economics Staff PAper no. 79 E-83. Urbana-Campaign: University of Illinois, Department of Agricultural Economics.
FAO (1984), Promotion of Women's Activities in Marketing and Credit. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization.
FAO (1985), Learning from Women: A Manual for Village Level Training to Promote Women's Activities in Marketing. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization.
Harper, Malcolm (1992), Their Own Idea: Lessons from Workers' Co-operatives. IT Publications.
Hashemi, Syed M, Ruth Schuler Sidney and Ann P Riley, "Rural Credit Programs and Women's Empowerment in Bangladesh", World Development, Vol. 24, #4, April 1996.
Hilhorst, Thea and Harry Oppenoorth (1992), Financing Women's Enterprises. IT Publications and Royal Tropical Institute.
ILO (1980). Report of the National Workshop on Income Generation skills for Women in Sri Lanka. Geneva: International Labour Organization.
Jumani, U. (1989). Training for Women in the Informal Sector: The Experience of the Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA), Ahmedabad, India in F. Fluitman (ed), Training for Work in the Informal Sector. Geneva: International Labour Organization.
Mintz, Sidney W. (1964), "The Employment of Capital by Market Women in Haiti", in Raymond Firth and B.S. Yamey (eds), Capital, Savings and Credit in Peseant Societies, Chicago: Aldine.
NCW-ILO (1988).Women's Self-Employment in Fiji: Findings of the 1987 Survey. Suva: National Council of Women/International Labour Organization.
Pruyne, Ellen (Ed.) (1993), An End to Debt: International Guidelines for Credit Projects. New York: UNIFEM (also in Spanish and French).
Schuler, Sidney, Syed Hashemi, Ann Riley and Shireen Akhter, "Credit Programs, Patriarchy and Men's Violence Against Women in Rural Bangladesh", Social Science and Medicine, Vol 43 No 12, 1996.
Schuler, Sidney, Syed Hashemi and Ann Riley, "The Influence of Women's Changing Roles and Status in Bangladesh's Fertility Transition: Evidence from a Study of Credit Programs and Contraceptive Use", World Development, Vol 25 No 4, April 1997.
SEEP-UNIFEM (1996), Village Banking: The State of the Practice. New York: UNIFEM.
Sidney Ruth Schuler, Syed M Hashemi, and Shamsul Huda Badal. "Men's Violence Against Women in Rural Bangladesh: Undermined or Exacerbated by Microcredit Programmes?" Development in Practice Volume 8 Number 2 (May 1998).
UNIFEM (1992), A Question of Access: Training Workshops on Planning Credit Projects that take Women into Account. New York: UNIFEM

Please also see the Microcredit Bibliography for further references on Women and Credit

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