imperfections are pervasive, and resources are scarce. Relaxing credit constraints can increase the productivity of microenterprises …. Using a field experiment involving agricultural microenterprises in Bangladesh, we estimated the impact of access to credit …) and technical efficiency changes. We found that relative to the baseline rice output per decimal, access to credit …

The champions of financial inclusion regret women’s lack of access to credit, while critics of financialization, by … contrast, claim that women have become overly indebted. But little is actually known about women’s debt/credit in quantitative … household debt. On a theoretical level, these results highlight the gendered earmarking of debt and credit: male and female …

' inability to cover short-term consumption needs with savings or credit. We conduct a field experiment in rural Zambia to … investigate the relationship between credit availability and rural labor supply. We find that providing households with access to … credit during the growing season substantially alters the allocation of household labor, with households in villages randomly …

The study aims at testing the Ghana Microfinance Policy set up to support the vulnerable through access to credit. We … results show that even after controlling for a large number of borrower characteristics, microfinance type and credit … entrepreneurs in the rationing behavior of the microfinance companies. This is what we should expect if the policy is effective. Our …

microfinance type based on the major factors determining micro, small and medium enterprises' access to credit from microfinance …This study sets out to examine the extent to which access to credit and credit rationing are influenced by the … institutions in the era of financial liberalization. The data for the study were gleaned from fourteen microfinance institutions …

average effects are detected on the adoption of mechanized irrigation, hybrid seeds, and chemical fertilizers. However, credit …

The global microfinance movement is driven by the claim that once poor micro-entrepreneurs are provided access to … substantiate this claim. This paper reports on a field experiment conducted in Pakistan, in co-operation with Akhuwat microfinance … microfinance institutions in Pakistan. …