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Another example is the Women's Development Business (WDB) in South Africa, a [[Grameen Bank]] microfinance replicator. According to WDB, the goal is to ensure “[…] that rural women are given the tools to free themselves from the chains of poverty […]” through allocation of financial resources directly to women including enterprise development programs.<ref name="WDB">{{cite web |url= http://wdb.co.za/about/#.UpUPR-KmZRc |title=WDB about page |year= 2013 |website=Women’s Development Business |publisher=WDB |access-date=28 November 2013}}</ref> The idea is to use microfinance as a market-oriented tool to ensure access to financial services for disadvantaged and low-income people and therefore fostering economic development through [[financial inclusion]].

Diving into another example regarding Microfinance and women from ''Women Entrepreneurship Promotion in Developing Countries: What explains the gender gap in entrepreneurship and how to close it?''is Vossenberg (2013) describes how although there has been an increase in entrepreneurship for women, the gender gap still persists. The author states “The gender gap is commonly defined as the difference between men and women in terms of numbers engaged in entrepreneurial activity, motives to start or run a business, industry choice and business performance and growth” (Vossenberg, 2). The article dives into how in Eastern Europe there is a low rate of women entrepreneurs. Although the author discusses how in Africa nearly fifty percent of women make up entrepreneurs.<ref>http://web2.msm.nl/RePEc/msm/wpaper/MSM-WP2013-08.pdf</ref>

Diving into another example regarding Microfinance and women from ''Women Entrepreneurship Promotion in Developing Countries: What

explains the gender gap in entrepreneurship and how to close it?''is Vossenberg (2013) describes how although there has been an increase in entrepreneurship for women, the gender gap still persists. The author states “The gender gap is commonly defined as the difference between men and women in terms of numbers engaged in entrepreneurial activity, motives to start or run a business, industry choice and business performance and growth” (Vossenberg, 2). The article dives into how in Eastern Europe there is a low rate of women entrepreneurs. Although the author discusses how in Africa nearly fifty percent of women make up entrepreneurs.<ref>http://web2.msm.nl/RePEc/msm/wpaper/MSM-WP2013-08.pdf</ref>

As a reaction, a current topic in the feminist literature on economic development is the ‘gendering’ of [[microfinance]], as women have increasingly become the target borrowers for rural [[microcredit]] lending. This, in turn, creates the assumption of a “rational economic woman” which can exacerbate existing social hierarchies<ref name="Rankin2001">{{cite journal |last=Rankin |first=Katharine N. |year=2001 |title= Governing Development: Neoliberalism, Microcredit, and Rational Economic Woman |url= http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/apcity/unpan011685.pdf |journal= Economy and Society |volume=30 |pages=18–37 |access-date=2 November 2013 |doi=10.1080/03085140122912}}</ref>).

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* World Bank. Global Monitoring Report 2007: Millennium Development Goals: Confronting the Challenges of Gender Equality and Fragile States (Vol. 4). World Bank-free PDF. p.&nbsp;145.

* Young, edited by Kate; Wolkowitz, Carol; McCullagh, Roslyn (1984). Of marriage and the market: women's subordination internationally and its lessons (2nd ed.). London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. p. Whitehead, A. (1984) ‘I’m hungry, mum: the politics of domestic budgeting.’.{{ISBN|9780710202932}}.

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==Further reading==

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* Benería, L., Berik, G., & Floro, M. (2003). Gender, development, and globalization: Economics as if all people mattered. New York: Routledge.

* Counts, Elad (2008). Small Loans, Big Dreams: How Nobel Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus and Microfinance Are Changing the World. John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated.

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* [http://www.focusintl.com/widnet.htm Gender and Development Resources (WIDNET)]

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