this paper we use data from Kenya and Tanzania to estimate returns to education for manufacturing workers and examine how … in Kenya.We test for the importance of ability bias and find convexity robust to endogeneity. Treating education as an …

The rapid increase in adult mortality due to the AIDS epidemic in sub- Saharan Africa raises great concern about its … rural Kenya using a panel of 1,266 households surveyed in 1997, 2000, and 2002. We find a strong correlation between working … adult death. The evidence indicates that rising adult mortality in rural Kenya is adversely affecting primary school …

wellbeing. Nothing that market exchange plays a larger role in africa, we also argued that the presence of transactions costs …

microfinance organizations believed to be among the best in Bolivia. These lenders represent different combinations of …

This report follows up on a 1996 UNDP survey of microfinance activity in Vietnam. The need was not simply because of … the five-year time lapse, but also because the larger multilateral donors were showing interest in funding microfinance … benefit. This report had highlighted a number of problems concerning microfinance in Vietnam. These concerns, however, should …

In developing countries, microfinance has been the darling of the development community, and in developed countries …, microfinance fits well with Third Ways ideas. What are the challenges and opportunities for the attempt to replicate microfinance … for microfinance and drive up costs. With costs well above revenues, U.S. programs are far from achieving financial self …

In the next ten years, advocates of microfinance organizations (MFOs) will seek more than $20 billion to provide small …-percent increase in the about $200 million spent per year on domestic microfinance. Most of the excitement for the promise of … microfinance in the United States has been sparked by reports of the success of the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh. Was Grameen a good …

loans with characteristics similar to current loans--to inform decisions. Can credit scoring do the same for microfinance … lenders in poor countries? This paper argues that scoring does have a place in microfinance. Although scoring is less powerful …--current microfinance technologies. Furthermore, the derivation of the scoring formula reveals how the characteristics of borrowers, loans …