
Naila Kabeer is the Professor of Gender and Development at the Department of Gender Studies and International Development of London School of Economics; her research focuses on gender, poverty, social exclusion, labour markets and livelihoods.
Research briefs
Conflicts over credit: Re-evaluating the empowerment potential of loans to women in rural Bangladesh
This paper explores the reasons why recent evaluations of the empowerment potential of credit programs for rural women in Bangladesh have arrived at very conflicting conclusions.





