{"id":2952,"date":"2015-02-05T13:31:57","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T18:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/isss\/?p=8657"},"modified":"2015-02-05T13:31:57","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T18:31:57","slug":"world-on-wednesday-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/gradleaf\/2015\/02\/world-on-wednesday-13\/","title":{"rendered":"World on Wednesdays"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Microfinance and the Empowerment of Women <\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Presented by Dr. Kathryn Anderson\/Professor of Economics\/Margaret Cumminggim Women&#8217;s Center<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>The microfinance movement in developing countries began with a small loan from Mohammad Yunus to a women in Bangladesh. Most microfinance loans today are given to women in developing countries. Women are more likely to repay their loans than men, but it is less clear whether micro-lending has significantly improved their lives. I review the most recent literature on the impact of microfinance on the poverty, human capital, and empowerment of women. I illustrate this review with evidence from my ongoing microfinance project in Kyrgyzstan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SLC Lower Level Meeting room 1&amp; 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>http:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/isss\/activities-events\/world-on-wednesdays-wow\/<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Open to the public<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Food and Drinks Provided<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Sponsored by: International Student and Scholar Services<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microfinance and the Empowerment of Women Presented by Dr. Kathryn Anderson\/Professor of Economics\/Margaret Cumminggim Women&#8217;s Center The microfinance movement in developing countries began with a small loan from Mohammad Yunus to a women in Bangladesh. Most microfinance loans today are given to women in developing countries. Women are more likely to repay their loans than&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3098,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activities-everyone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/gradleaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/gradleaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/gradleaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/gradleaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3098"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/gradleaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2952"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/gradleaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2973,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/gradleaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2952\/revisions\/2973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/gradleaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/gradleaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/gradleaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}