Economic well-being induced Women's empowerment: Evidence from coastal fishing communities of Bangladesh.

ABSTRACT: Women's empowerment is an important policy agenda that is critical for developing countries like Bangladesh to achieve sustainable development goals (SDGs). The prime objective of this paper was to examine whether community savings groups can truly improve the economic conditions of women which turns into women's empowerment in fishing communities or not. The propensity score matching (PSM) and logistic regression technique were incorporated, and required data were collected from Community Savings Groups (CSG) interventions and non-CSG villages of coastal Bangladesh. Quantitative data were collected from 615 women comprising 306 CSG participants (treatment group) and 309 non-participants (control group). The results affirm CSG group members were economically more solvent and less dependent

SUBMITTER: Palash MS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10990856 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature