rise in income inequality. Poverty has increased sharply with an estimated 18.5% of the population on incomes below the …

resources in the analysis of poverty. Most empirical studies of poverty, however, assume an equal sharing of resources between …, only limited attention has been directed towards addressing how sharing assumptions can be incorporated into poverty … female adults and between adults and children affects the incidence and intensity of poverty. The method is consistent with …

extreme poverty, with guaranteed access to social services. Program impacts are identified using a regression discontinuity …

development goals. Microfinance in particular has often been argued, but not without controversy, to be a tool for empowering …

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

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 …