The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Methodology and Analytical Issues

Sometimes solidarity groups study the Women in Business manuals or other reading materials together. In some village banks the solidarity group members screen each other’s loan proposals and give suggestions. They can recommend to the management committee whether or not a loan should be granted. If one of the members of a solidarity group is having a problem with her business the others might help her make her loan payment. Or if one of the members has to go to the market for buying or selling, another member might look after her children. Since the women in a...