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Papers by Bettina Bock

Knowledge Brokerage for Sustainable Development: Innovative Tools for Increasing Research Impact and Evidence, 2000

Women's Studies International Forum, 2012

ABSTRACT Microfinance programmes increasingly target poor women in developing countries with the ... more ABSTRACT Microfinance programmes increasingly target poor women in developing countries with the expectation that, besides poverty reduction, having access to microcredit advances their empowerment. However, research provides conflicting evidence and shows that empowerment may not, or may only be partially achieved. This study explores if variations in the socio-cultural, economic and microfinance organisational contexts explain why some programmes are more successful than others by comparing the results of two microfinance providers in Ethiopia. The study demonstrates that variations in formal and informal rules indeed matter for how microfinance programmes work out. The study also shows that microfinance programmes may enable women to generate extra income and improve their asset base but may also perpetuate inequalities as well as reconfirm a gender-specific division of labour.

Applied Animal Behaviour …, Jan 1, 2008

… animal welfare: from …, Jan 1, 2007

Research in Rural Sociology and Development, 2007

This study sets out to explain the specific character of women's participation in rural d... more This study sets out to explain the specific character of women's participation in rural development. Its focuses on the fact that although rural women take an active part in practical initiatives they do not figure in the process of rural policy decision making, neither do they make use of those policy instruments meant to stimulate bottom-up innovative initiatives. The absence

Knowledge Brokerage for Sustainable Development: Innovative Tools for Increasing Research Impact and Evidence, 2000

Women's Studies International Forum, 2012

ABSTRACT Microfinance programmes increasingly target poor women in developing countries with the ... more ABSTRACT Microfinance programmes increasingly target poor women in developing countries with the expectation that, besides poverty reduction, having access to microcredit advances their empowerment. However, research provides conflicting evidence and shows that empowerment may not, or may only be partially achieved. This study explores if variations in the socio-cultural, economic and microfinance organisational contexts explain why some programmes are more successful than others by comparing the results of two microfinance providers in Ethiopia. The study demonstrates that variations in formal and informal rules indeed matter for how microfinance programmes work out. The study also shows that microfinance programmes may enable women to generate extra income and improve their asset base but may also perpetuate inequalities as well as reconfirm a gender-specific division of labour.

Applied Animal Behaviour …, Jan 1, 2008

… animal welfare: from …, Jan 1, 2007

Research in Rural Sociology and Development, 2007

This study sets out to explain the specific character of women's participation in rural d... more This study sets out to explain the specific character of women's participation in rural development. Its focuses on the fact that although rural women take an active part in practical initiatives they do not figure in the process of rural policy decision making, neither do they make use of those policy instruments meant to stimulate bottom-up innovative initiatives. The absence