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 …

positive impact of farm size and reinforce the negative effect of income. The model is estimated for rural Ghana and Pakistan … Pakistan and for girls in Ghana but there is no income effect for the other two groups of children. We find interesting effects …

psychological impact of illness and the sociopsychological and structural realities of diabetes care in Ghana. …