Theory and evidence have raised concerns that microcredit does more harm than good, particularly when offered at high … microcredit causes harm. …

This paper examines the effect of household access to microcredit upon work by seven to eleven year old children in … rural Malawi. Given that microcredit organizations foster household enterprises wherein much child labor is engaged, this … paper aims to discover whether access to microcredit might increase work by children. It is found that household access to …

microcredit, plays a role in children's food security, measured by anthropometric nutritional Z-scores. Access to microcredit is … assessed in a novel way as self-reported credit limits at microcredit organizations. Since credit limits, that is, the maximum … resources of lenders, it is plausible they are more exogenous than demand driven loan uptake or participation in microcredit …

microfinance type based on the major factors determining micro, small and medium enterprises' access to credit from microfinance … institutions in the era of financial liberalization. The data for the study were gleaned from fourteen microfinance institutions … rationing is not influenced by the microfinance types but by the individual microfinance institutions. …

Microcredit is an innovative financial tool designed to reduce poverty and fix credit market imperfections. We use … microcredit. Conditional on borrowing from any source, women with present-biased preferences are more likely than others to borrow … through microcredit institutions. Microcredit contracts require loan repayments in regular, fixed installments and they …

This paper investigates a relationship between economic governance and the dual objectives of Microfinance Institutions … (MFIs): poverty reduction and financial viability. Using an unbalanced panel of 531 MFIs the important role of other … availability and lesser time in securing property enhances the chances of MFIs in achieving their poverty reduction objective …

size on child education in urban Philippines. To isolate exogenous changes in family size, we exploit a policy shock: in …