Microcredit has long been hailed as a powerful tool to promote livelihoods and reduce poverty through entrepreneurship … analyzing the effect of microcredit-enabled entrepreneurship on overall life satisfaction – a key manifestation of subjective … three villages of Bangladesh in 2013. In spite of having no direct effects, we find that microcredit borrowing has an …

This paper examines the effect of household access to microcredit upon work by seven to eleven year old children in … rural Malawi. Given that microcredit organizations foster household enterprises wherein much child labor is engaged, this … paper aims to discover whether access to microcredit might increase work by children. It is found that household access to …

girls' food security. That women's access to microcredit improves young girls' long-term nutrition may be explained in part …Using data from the 1995 Malawi Financial Markets and Food Security Survey, this study seeks to discover if women … microcredit, plays a role in children's food security, measured by anthropometric nutritional Z-scores. Access to microcredit is …

Theory and evidence have raised concerns that microcredit does more harm than good, particularly when offered at high … microcredit causes harm. …

econometric results. We show that women are heavily indebted, first and foremost to informal sources, alongside microcredit. While … terms of policy implications, these results put into question the specific targeting of women by microcredit policies …The champions of financial inclusion regret women's lack of access to credit, while critics of financialization, by …

Theory and evidence have raised concerns that microcredit does more harm than good, particularly when offered at high … microcredit causes harm. …

This paper examines the effect of household access to microcredit upon work by seven to eleven year old children in … rural Malawi. Given that microcredit organizations foster household enterprises wherein much child labor is engaged, this … paper aims to discover whether access to microcredit might increase work by children. It is found that household access to …

girls' food security. That women's access to microcredit improves young girls' long-term nutrition may be explained in part …Using data from the 1995 Malawi Financial Markets and Food Security Survey, this study seeks to discover if women … microcredit, plays a role in children's food security, measured by anthropometric nutritional Z-scores. Access to microcredit is …

field experiment of Community-Led Total Sanitation in Indonesia, we find that villages with high initial social capital …