Pii: S0305-750x(00)00081-4
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Ð This paper explores the reasons why recent evaluations of the empowerment potential of credit programs for rural women in Bangladesh have arrived at very con ̄icting conclusions. Although these evaluations use somewhat dierent methodologies and have been carried out at dierent points of time, the paper argues that the primary source of the con ̄ict lies in the very dierent understandings of intrahousehold power relations which these studies draw on. It supports this argument through a comparative analysis with the ®ndings of a participatory evaluation of a rather dierent credit program in Bangladesh in which the impact of loans was evaluated by women loanees themselves. Ó 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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