Table 3 Dimensions or themes of FI and women empowerment.
Dimension | Sub dimension | Studies (N = 67) |
|---|---|---|
Barriers | Patriarchy structures | Kabeer N, Sweetman C, 2015; Ghosh and Günther, 2018; Manta, 2019; Roy 2015 |
Psychological | Koellinger et al., 2008; Lombe et al., 2012; Patil and Kokate, 2017; Kavita and Suman, 2019; Manta, 2019 | |
Low income/wages | Marie et al., 2017; Gonzales Martínez et al., 2020; Ghosh and Vinod, 2017 | |
Low financial literacy | Klassen and Lamanna, 2009; Gonzales et al., 2015; Kumari and Azam, 2019; Montanari and Bergh, 2019; Manta, 2019; Kavita and Suman, 2019; Kaur and Kapuria, 2020; Doss et al., 2020; Ingale and Paluri, 2020 | |
Low financial accessibility | Bernasek, 2003; Klasen and Lamanna, 2009; Soumare et al., 2016; Brudevold et al., 2017; Manta, 2019; Kemp and Berkovitch, 2020; Mueller et al., 2020; Demirguc-Kunt et al., 2022 | |
Ethnicity | ||
Experimental studies | Social interventions | Cho et al., 2013; Ibarrarán et al., 2019; Maitra and Mani, 2017; Field et al., 2016; Kim et al., 2007 |
Economic interventions | Dupas and Robinsion, 2013; Dupas et al., 2014; Schaner, 2017; Squires 2018; Lall et al., 2017; Gonzales Martínez et al., 2020; Prina, 2015; Roy et al., 2015 | |
Social and economic interventions | Adoho et al., 2014; Alzúa et al., 2016; Bandiera et al., 2015; Stark et al., 2018; Honorati, 2015; Valdivia, 2015; Chakravarty et al., 2016; Diaz and Rosas, 2016; Brudevold et al., 2017; Buehren et al., 2015 | |
Intervention types | Government/corporates programs and policies | Swamy, 2014; Montanari and Bergh, 2019; Gülsoy and Ustabaş, 2019; Kaur and Kapuria, 2020; Gonzales Martínez et al., 2020 |
Microcredit/microfinance | Swamy, 2014; Laha and Kuri, 2014; Zhang and Posso, 2017; Johnson, 2013; Gonzales Martínez et al., 2020; Khandker and Samad 2014; Buehren et al., 2015; Karlan et al., 2007; Kim et al., 2007; Lall et al., 2017 | |
Formal account/services | Schaner, 2017; Dupas and Robinsion, 2013; Dupas et al., 2014; Prina, 2015 | |
Cash/asset transfer program | Roy et al., 2015; Brudevold et al., 2017; Buller et al., 2018; Ismayilova et al., 2018; Squires, 2018 | |
Self-help groups (SHG), Philanthropy, NGOs | Nagaraj and Sundaram, 2017; Hendriks, 2019; Kemp and Berkovitch, 2020; Kabeer, 2011; Maclean, 2012; Ramachandar and Pelto, 2009; Mehta et al., 2011; Tiwari et al., 2019; Deininger and Liu, 2013 | |
Digital inclusion | Klapper and Singer, 2017; Klapper and Dutt, 2015; Suri and Jack, 2016; Ouma et al., 2017; Efobi et al., 2018; Humbani and Wiese, 2018; Natile, 2019; Arnold and Gammage, 2019; Tiwari et al., 2019 |
