Resumen

VELARDE FLORES, Cecilia Lorena  y  VELAZQUEZ CONTRERAS, Lorenia. Microcredit and Economic Autonomy of Women in Poverty: A Bibliometric Analysis. Región y sociedad [online]. 2023, vol.35, e1719.  Epub 02-Jun-2023. ISSN 2448-4849.  https://doi.org/10.22198/rys2023/35/1719.

Objective: to propose a review framework for the literature on microcredit programs for women and their impact on poverty reduction, based on a bibliometric analysis that shows the relationships and trends of the microcredit and women’s economic autonomy concepts. Methodology: descriptive with documentary design using the VOSviewer software tools on a database of 434 documents resulting from the search on the Scopus platform. Limitations: only the Scopus database was considered for the period 1992-2021. Results: most of the research is located in Asia (India and Bangladesh) and published mainly in the United States. The main authors, institutions, and countries were identified through co-authorship analysis. From the co-occurrences analysis, three clusters emerge: microcredit, human development, and economic development. Value: the construction of a bibliographic base for microcredit and economic autonomy studies. Conclusions: the most recent studies on the effectiveness of microcredit for women show the need to include other dimensions when evaluating these support policies, such as power relations, gender asymmetries, and the sociocultural context, and not only the economic ones.

Palabras llave : microcredit; women's economic autonomy; bibliometric analysis; women and poverty.

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