Does Self Help Group Participation Lead to Asset Creation? Academic Article

abstract

• We evaluate the effect of Self Help Group participation on a long-term impact parameter, namely, asset creation. Indian Self Help Groups (SHGs) are unique in that they are mainly NGO-formed microfinance groups but later funded by commercial banks. The results reveal that longer membership in SHGs positively impacts asset creation, robust to various asset specifications. With longer participation in SHGs, members move away from pure agriculture as an income source toward other sources such as livestock income. Training by NGOs positively impacts asset creation but the type of SHG linkage per se has no effect. 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

authors

• Varghese, Adel

published proceedings

• WORLD DEVELOPMENT

altmetric score

• 3

author list (cited authors)

• Swain, R. B., & Varghese, A.

citation count

• 50

complete list of authors

• Swain, Ranjula Bali||Varghese, Adel

publication date

• January 2009

publisher

• Elsevier  Publisher

published in

• World Development  Journal

keywords

• Asia
• Assets
• Impact Studies
• India
• Microfinance
• Self Help Groups

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1016/j.worlddev.2009.03.006

start page

• 1674

end page

• 1682

volume

• 37

issue

• 10

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2009.03.006