inequality leads to more or less group participation. Using survey data from rural Tanzania we find that inequality at the …

microlenders: male and higher-income entrepreneurs. In all, our results suggest that microcredit works broadly through risk …

Policymakers often prescribe that microfinance institutions increase interest rates to eliminate reliance on subsidies …

Expanding credit access is a key ingredient of development strategies worldwide. Microfinance practitioners … expansion. There is less consensus on the role of consumer credit in expansion initiatives. Some microfinance institutions are …

Motivated by recent controversies surrounding the role of commercial lenders in microfinance, we analyze borrower …

impact of Equity Bank—a leading private commercial bank focusing on microfinance—on the access to banking in Kenya. Unlike …

of a particular microfinance institution (Spandana) while the remainder were not, although other MFIs were free to enter …. We found no changes in any of the development outcomes that are often believed to be affected by microfinance, including …

We examine how participation in a microfinance program diffuses through social networks. We collected detailed … demographic and social network data in 43 villages in South India before microfinance was introduced in those villages and then … first informed about the program, "the injection points". Microfinance participation is higher when the injection points …