Two experimental business development programs for female microentrepreneurs in Lima, Peru showed that both women in the group that received general training and those in the group that received general training in addition to technical assistance experienced increased sales revenues and significant growth two years after the end of the treatment programs.

Piped water interventions resulted in a significant reduction of time spent fetching water for girls and women, as well as increased household water consumption.

Evidence from India suggests gender-targeted cash transfer programs can empower women in household decision-making processes but have little effect on household expenditures, savings, income, or nutrition.
 

In Bolivia, ethnic discrimination in microfinance prevents indigenous women from obtaining loans at the same rate as their non-indigenous counterparts.

Restrictive migration policy , which restricted people from emigrating (migrating away) from their country of origin, deteriorated the local labor market by pushing a higher percentage of women than men into informal and agricultural work but also led to an increase in junior secondary school enrollment.

One-day financial education training programs may be cost-effective interventions for improving the financial behaviors of women from poor households. 

The gender profit gap in micro-enterprises is likely to be driven by gender differences in access to capital and business inputs rather than seller behavior or demand-side constraints.

A multidimensional intervention program improves the lives of the extreme poor with effects lasting up to a year later, including increasing women’s empowerment in the short-term.

A business skills training program for female microfinance clients in Peru had little effect improving business performance and did not increase women’s decision making power at home.

Unanticipated windfall income is used for shared household needs when allocated to a husband or wife publicly, but behavior changes when it is given privately – men spend on personal consumption, while women save or loan to personal networks.