Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/322902 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Papers Series No. 13-10
Publisher: 
Utrecht University, Utrecht School of Economics, Tjalling C. Koopmans Research Institute, Utrecht
Abstract: 
This study on female entrepreneurs in Western Uganda provides empirical evidence on the socio-economic effects of participation in a microfinance cooperative of both the female entrepreneur and her husband. Participation by female entrepreneurs in a microfinance cooperative is not an unconditional blessing: even though it does deliver higher household incomes, it might also deteriorate the female's household decision-making power when her husband participates in the same self-help group of the microfinance cooperative. This offers new insights for development policy and for entrepreneurship scholars to study the bright and dark sides of microfinance.
Subjects: 
microfinance
cooperatives
female entrepreneurship
coffee
Uganda
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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