addition to rural and community banks and microfinance institutions. Using recent household survey data, we ascertain the …

Banks play a role in the corporate governance of firms as well as acting as debt financiers around the world. Universal …

Over the last 35 years, microfinance has been generally regarded as an effective policy tool in the fight against … address this question, we conduct a systematic review of the quantitative literature of microfinance's impacts in the … developing world, and develop a theory of change that links inputs to impacts on several welfare outcomes. Overall, we find that …

Whereas most research into microfinance tends to focus on the impact of access to such services, very little pays … as most microfinance institutions foster client retention and apply a progressive lending policy. Moreover, as previous … analysed from a gender perspective. The work is based on a case study about the main Tunisian microfinance institution using …

Although microfinance started as a movement to improve women's economic wellbeing through increased female …. We fill this gap by combining data on branch locations of the major microfinance institutions in Bangladesh with …

functionality. This could lead to undersaving compared to a world without market or behavioural frictions. Undersaving can have …