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Social Impact Assessment of Microfinance Programmes - weman

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categories, if any, is not significant. In fact, in no category do we find any significant<br />

difference between those who have been in the programme for two years – Active<br />

Borrowers – and those who are not in the programme.<br />

As in the case <strong>of</strong> many MFIs, these results do not reflect upon the workings <strong>of</strong> Akhuwat<br />

and nor does it show that micr<strong>of</strong>inance does not work. Rather, as we argue in Chapter 2,<br />

the time required for impact to be noticeably observed and quantified, is considerably<br />

greater than the period most <strong>of</strong> our MFIs have been in business for.<br />

Table – 5.2<br />

AKHUWAT – Housing<br />

Variables Category Mean Standard<br />

Deviation<br />

t-value<br />

Significance<br />

Level<br />

House owners Active Borrowers 78.1250 41.46966 .320 .749<br />

New and Non-Borrowers 76.6667 42.41324<br />

Person per room Active Borrowers 3.0216 1.59794 -2.431 .016<br />

New and Non-Borrowers 3.5179 2.09785<br />

Houses with baked bricks Active Borrowers 98.1250 13.60667 .224 .823<br />

New and Non-Borrowers 97.7778 14.78167<br />

Houses with RCC Ro<strong>of</strong> Active Borrowers 84.3750 36.42322 1.174 .241<br />

New and Non-Borrowers 79.4444 40.52342<br />

Houses with Cemented Floor Active Borrowers 72.5000 44.79162 1.807 .072<br />

New and Non-Borrowers 63.3333 48.32386<br />

Note: There are 160 and 180 respondents in each category respectively. t-value greater than 1.6 indicates<br />

the mean difference between two categories is statistically significant. The negative t indicates that<br />

average value <strong>of</strong> category 2 is greater than the average value <strong>of</strong> category 1.<br />

Table – 5.3<br />

AKHUWAT – Economic Status<br />

Variables Category Mean Standard<br />

Deviation<br />

t-value<br />

Significance<br />

Level<br />

Expenditure Per Capita Active Borrowers 1422.3281 577.00095 1.542 .124<br />

New and Non-<br />

Borrowers<br />

1328.6200 542.99927<br />

Per Capita Food Expenditure Active Borrowers 693.7873 347.77198 1.764 .079<br />

New and Non-<br />

Borrowers<br />

628.9586 329.48707<br />

Income Per Capita Active Borrowers 1531.3474 723.20244 1.638 .102<br />

New and Non-<br />

Borrowers<br />

1411.6488 624.06628<br />

Household Asset Score Active Borrowers 7.17 2.458 .154 .878<br />

New and Non-<br />

Borrowers<br />

7.13 2.436<br />

Value <strong>of</strong> household assets Active Borrowers 490050.2239 590787.49174 -.234 .815<br />

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