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Preparing fertile ground: how does the quality of business environments affect MSE growth?
Small Bus Econ (Dordr)
August 2023
Department of Banking and Finance, University of Zurich, Plattenstrasse 32, 8032 Zurich, Switzerland.
We study how the quality of local business environments helps explain growth outcomes of micro- and small enterprise microfinance clients by drawing on long-term nationwide administrative data and a policy shock in Cambodia. The staggered launch of special economic zones, which we link to positive shocks to the business environment on both the demand and supply side, leads to significantly increased employment in micro- and small enterprises (MSEs) located in these special economic zones (SEZs), compared to enterprises in contextually similar districts that are unexposed to an SEZ. Key channels explaining the improved growth outcomes include expanded access to external markets for the enterprises' goods and services, more dynamic labor environments, and improved credit terms and conditions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCost and cost-effectiveness of health behavior change interventions implemented with self-help groups in Bihar, India.
PLoS One
December 2019
Project Concern International, New Delhi, India.
Introduction: Health interventions implemented with self-help groups (SHGs) enhance the relevance and acceptability of the health services. The Parivartan program was implemented in eight districts of Bihar with women's self-help groups to increase adoption of maternal and newborn health behaviors through layering health behavior change communication. This study estimates the cost and cost-effectiveness of a health behavior change program with SHGs in Bihar.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAssessing the incremental effects of combining economic and health interventions: the IMAGE study in South Africa.
Bull World Health Organ
November 2009
Bureau for Development Policy, United Nations Development Programme, New York, NY, USA.
Objective: To explore whether adding a gender and HIV training programme to microfinance initiatives can lead to health and social benefits beyond those achieved by microfinance alone.
Methods: Cross-sectional data were derived from three randomly selected matched clusters in rural South Africa: (i) four villages with 2-year exposure to the Intervention with Microfinance for AIDS and Gender Equity (IMAGE), a combined microfinance-health training intervention; (ii) four villages with 2-year exposure to microfinance services alone; and (iii) four control villages not targeted by any intervention. Adjusted risk ratios (aRRs) employing village-level summaries compared associations between groups in relation to indicators of economic well-being, empowerment, intimate partner violence (IPV) and HIV risk behaviour.
Broadening research on microfinance and related strategies for HIV prevention: commentary on Dworkin and Blankenship (2009).
AIDS Behav
June 2009
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Center for AIDS Intervention Research, Medical College of Wisconsin, 2071 N Summit Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53211, USA.
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