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Socio-Economic Impacts of JEEViKA: A Large-Scale Self-Help Group Project in Bihar, India
Ist Teil von
World development, 2015-04, Vol.68, p.1-18
Ort / Verlag
Oxford: Elsevier Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr
2015
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Beschreibungen/Notizen
•Quantitative evaluation of JEEViKA, a CDD project in Bihar, India by PSM.•Significant and robust results on the debt portfolio of beneficiary households.•Significant and robust results on the empowerment levels of beneficiary women.•Some significant results on assets, food security, and sanitation.•No substantial changes in livelihood options, including agricultural.
Policymakers have invested billions of dollars over the past two decades on projects which target poverty reduction by institutional mobilization of the poor. Unfortunately, evidence on the efficacy of such projects is few and far between; this is an outcome of the complexity of these projects.
We consider results from JEEViKA, a large-scale rural livelihoods program in Bihar, India. We use a retrospective survey instrument, coupled with PSM techniques to find that JEEViKA has engendered some significant results in restructuring the debt portfolio of these households; additionally, there is evidence on women’s empowerment, as measured by various dimensions.