. Instead, the attempt to rely on randomized controlled trials is serving to distract. Microfinance ; Grameen bank ; poverty …The choice of Microfinance (MF) by the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) as the primary means of poverty alleviation … to take a fresh look and start from first principles to clear the air. Microfinance is micro finance---it is finance writ …

, mainly through a massive increase of non-performing loans resulting from bank borrowers' inability to repay their debts … facilitate banks continued lending. It is still difficult to forecast whether bank capital will be sufficient to absorb the shock ….Having effective bank crisis management regimes in place, which may possibly also rely on public intervention, will be key to limiting …

This paper studies how the early-career exposure of bank holding company (BHC) CEOs to the 1980s savings and loans (S … exposure by the bank failure rate in the states where CEOs worked during the S&L crisis. First, I identify the characteristics … demonstrate that these findings are not driven by bank–CEO matching …