The purpose of the present study is to examine whether microfinance reduces poverty in Bangladesh drawing upon the … household poverty. However, the application of treatment effects model and PSM to each cross-sectional component of the panel … data shows that the poverty reducing effect of MFI on poverty was significantly reduced over the years. This suggests the …

that rural vulnerability in Bangladesh is mainly poverty induced rather than risk induced. Around 78 per cent all who are …. Overall vulnerability in rural areas is estimated to be 50 per cent. The categorization of poverty into transient and chronic … poverty is even more insightful. The study finds that those without education or agricultural households are likely to be the …