scholarly journals Female Empowerment: Impact of a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines

2010 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 333-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nava Ashraf ◽  
Dean Karlan ◽  
Wesley Yin
Keyword(s):  
The Philippines ◽  
Female Empowerment ◽  
Commitment Savings

Commitment Savings Products in the Philippines

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dean Karlan ◽  
Kim Sarnoff ◽  
Abigail Sellman ◽  
Keesler Welch ◽  
Sneha Stephen
Keyword(s):  
The Philippines ◽  
Commitment Savings

Commitment Savings Products in the Philippines

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dean Karlan ◽  
Kim Sarnoff ◽  
Abigail Sellman ◽  
Keesler Welch ◽  
Sneha Stephen
Keyword(s):  
The Philippines ◽  
Commitment Savings

scholarly journals regulating motherhood through markets: Filipino women’s engagement with microcredit

2021 ◽  
Vol 129 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-47
Author(s):  
Sharmila Parmanand
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Moral Worth ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Female Empowerment ◽  
Microfinance Institutions ◽  
Feminist Scholarship ◽  
Loan Repayment ◽  
Access To Credit ◽  
Global Leader ◽  
The Cost

The Philippines is a global leader in deploying microcredit to address poverty. These programmes are usually directed at women. Research on these programmes focuses on traditional economic indicators such as loan repayment rates but neglects impacts on women’s agency and well-being, or their position in the household and relationships with their partners and children. It is taken for granted that access to microcredit leads to enhanced gender freedoms. In line with the growing body of work in feminist scholarship that critiques the instrumentalist logic of microfinance institutions (MFIs) in relation to women, this research foregrounds stories from interviews with female borrowers in Zamboanga City in Southern Philippines to provide grounded illustrations of how microcredit is reshaping relationships between women and their families, women and poverty and women and the state. Borrowers used loans to meet their family’s needs even at the cost of harassment from creditors, indebtedness, increased workloads and conflict with partners. These narratives challenge the dominant neoliberal discourse of female empowerment through access to credit by exposing how microcredit is part of a complex set of regulations around ‘good motherhood’ and consumption, where women’s moral worth is based on their willingness and ability to lift their families out of poverty.

Commitment Savings Products in the Philippines

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dean Karlan ◽  
Kim Sarnoff ◽  
Abigail Sellman ◽  
Keesler Welch ◽  
Sneha Stephen
Keyword(s):  
The Philippines ◽  
Commitment Savings

Commitment Savings Products in the Philippines

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dean Karlan ◽  
Kim Sarnoff ◽  
Abigail Sellman ◽  
Keesler Welch ◽  
Sneha Stephen
Keyword(s):  
The Philippines ◽  
Commitment Savings

scholarly journals Tying Odysseus to the Mast: Evidence From a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines

2006 ◽  
Vol 121 (2) ◽  
pp. 635-672 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Ashraf ◽  
D. Karlan ◽  
W. Yin
Keyword(s):  
The Philippines ◽  
Commitment Savings

Disaster Medicine Training in the Philippines

2002 ◽  
Vol 17 (S2) ◽  
pp. S27
Author(s):  
Teodoro Javier Herbosa
Keyword(s):  
The Philippines ◽  
Disaster Medicine

VA's Unique History, Mission in the Philippines

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matt Bristol ◽  
Jon Skelly
Keyword(s):  
The Philippines
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