The same social-obligation forces that make saving costly also make it hard for women specifically to borrow or hold money, which is why Grameen targeted women — and why the savings constraint and the gender constraint share a common cause.

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Michael Munger

Evidence Quote

if you look at the reasons it's the answers to the question that you just post all of the things that would explain why it's hard for women to borrow money also explain why it's hard for them to say which are well a family community the norm that if you have some money

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Mike Munger on Microfinance, Savings, and Poverty 04/18/2011EconTalk
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