Mexican anti-poverty program targeting poor women may help men most, study finds

Economic empowerment programs that target women may have an unintended effect: They help men instead.

• Nora Haenn
• The Conversation

A growing number of economic development programs worldwide provide cash specifically to women in poor communities.

Giving women access to money empowers them, the theory goes.

And empowered women – especially mothers – can lift entire families out of poverty.

Bangladesh’s Grameen Bank won a Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for launching a microloan program just for women.

Nine Indian states give small sums of cash to…

• Mexican anti-poverty…