Author:
Amin Ruhul,Hill Robert B.,Lii Yiping
Abstract
By analysing a 1992 national level household sample survey
data collected from the female recipients of collateral-free loans of
three relatively large rural development agencies in Bangladesh-GB,
BRAC, and BRDB-the present study shows that the participation in
income-generating projects by poor rural women had been associated with
their increased level of contraceptive use, decreased level of
fertility, elevated level of desire for no more children, and enhanced
level of empowerment. Some of these effects were much higher than those
of the corresponding levels for Bangladesh as a whole, indicating the
possible additional effect of income-generating projects as well as the
effects of their population-education components. The implications of
these findings for an integrated development strategy m Bangladesh are
discussed.
Publisher
Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE)
Subject
Development,Geography, Planning and Development
Cited by
31 articles.
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