-experimental design, in Bangladesh and Pakistan. Three borrower groups are compared: Current borrowers; Pipeline borrowers and Non …. For Pakistan, there is no evidence that micro-credit effects employment. However, for Bangladesh, there is robust evidence …

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 …

microfinance institution (MFI) that was set up as a randomized controlled trial and accompanied by household panel surveys … this paper, the effect is largely due to an ex-ante feeling of protection as opposed to a shock-mitigation effect …

paper examines the impact of the 2017 flood in Bangladesh on men's and women's time use patterns and women's empowerment … participation in housework to substitute for women's domestic work. These responses to the shock are confirmed only for those … find that the shock still positively affects both variables, suggesting that when endogenous, an increase in empowerment …

Bangladesh has experienced the largest mass poisoning of a population in history owing to contamination of groundwater … Bangladesh using recent nationally representative data on secondary school children. We unambiguously find a negative and …