Microfinance is seen as a key development tool, and despite the current deepening crisis within the industry, it continues to grow in sub-Saharan Africa. We systematically reviewed the evidence of the impacts of micro-credit and micro-savings on poor people in sub-Saharan Africa. We considered...

In this paper recent results of [6]Ann. Statist.5 110-123] are used to obtain the asymptotic null distribution of a weighted Cramér-von Mises type test for independence. We use approximate Bahadur slopes to find good weight functions for certain alternatives. Some percentage points of the...