We study trader agent intermediated lending (TRAIL), a new version of microfinance where local intermediaries (lenders …

Microfinance groups often engage in a variety of collective activities not directly related to credit. Groups can …

The objective of this paper is to estimate the impacts of medium and long term participation in microfinance programs … estimates indicate that the benefits from microfinance vary more than proportionately with the duration of participation in a … basis for assessing the effectiveness of microfinance lending. …

This paper evaluates the impact of microfinance on household consumption using a new, large and unique cross … participants in microfinance. The overall results indicate that the effects of micro loans are not robust across all groups of poor …

Previous studies indicate that microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) have different …

This paper examines how availability of microfinance influences households' borrowing from informal sources in village … in Bangladesh. We find that households' access to microfinance reduces the incidence of borrowing from informal sources … with respect to occupation, which can be explained by differing trends in occupational transition between microfinance …