individuals already at commercial banks and only initially receive smaller loans. Our results suggest that the microfinance sector …

constrained. This paper analyses whether, and how, micro-finance supports a large public health subsidy program in the developing … world-the Swachh Bharat Mission-in achieving its aim of increasing uptake of individual household latrines. Exploiting a … cluster randomised controlled experiment of a sanitation micro-finance program that coincided with the launch of the SBM …

-- Institutional growth and MFI performance -- Dynamics of microfinance benefits -- Are borrowers overindebted? -- Role of microfinance … in poverty transition -- Diversification of income and employment : how does microfinance affect agriculture …? -- Distributional impacts -- Effects of noncredit participation -- Does microfinance pay off? -- Beyond ending poverty -- Appendix A …

This report investigates the poverty outreach of 14 microfinance institutions (MFI) across six Latin American countries …-indebtedness. Increased banking saturation is changing the landscape of microfinance, pushing MFIs who do not explicitly target the poor to …

The global financial crisis affected microfinance institutions (MFIs) as lending growth was constrained by scarcer …