microfinance borrowers. The paper posits that social capital - social relations that facilitate individual action – is essential …

Few microfinance-funded businesses grow beyond subsistence entrepreneurship. This paper considers one possible … explanation: that the structure of existing microfinance contracts may discourage risky but high-expected return investments. To … microfinance institution in India. The experiments confirm the theoretical predictions that joint liability creates two …

This paper analyzes the theoretical underpinnings of high-frequency repayment, a feature in nearly all microfinance …

shed light on an apparent shift away from joint liability lending towards individual liability lending by some microfinance …

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

winners from increasing economic freedom were the entrepreneurs. The religious were little affected by the changes. This …

-income families, looking specifically at the effects on poverty, family expenditures, and child health and development. The paper … finds some commonalities but also some notable differences. Common to both countries is a sizable reduction in child poverty …, although the reduction in child poverty in the US has been less, and some families appear to have been left behind. Expenditure …

significant correlation and regression coefficients which suggest a link between inflation and inequality, while poverty appears …