Using two surveys from Bangladesh, this paper provides evidence on the effects of microfinance competition on village …

microfinance in poverty alleviation efforts in Bangladesh and how this role can be enhanced. It was intended to establish and …In the People’s Republic of Bangladesh, the poverty has been a main challenge since the last decades and its … a gainful employment opportunities. The Islamic banks and the Islamic windows of conventional banks in Bangladesh should …

Microfinance (MF) and family planning (FP) are thought to be very important interventions in the promotion of human …, Schuler and Riley (1996); Schuler and Hashemi (1994), using naive methods find that MF in Bangladesh increases contraceptive … outweigh substitution. Steele et al (2001), also using data from Bangladesh from around the same time as the PKML study, come …

Despite the current enthusiasms in applying the concept of microfinance as a poverty alleviation tool in many countries … default risks in microfinance and subsequently, provides a comprehensive exploratory study on the various ways to handle the … default risks in microfinance. While there are social and religious objectives embedded in extending microfinancing, fact is …

Recently, microfinance has come under increasing criticism raising questions of the validity of iconic studies which … have justified the microfinance phenomenon. This paper applies propensity score matching (PSM), which has become widely … rigorous evidence supporting claims that microfinance benefits the poorest especially when targeted on women. After carefully …

Microfinance has, by now, reached a total of over 60% of all poor households of Bangladesh, and 37% of all households … (World Bank, 2005). There are, however some controversies relating to the indebtedness for the microfinance receivers and the … contribution of microfinance in their socioeconomic conditions. Some say it is making poor people debt trapped, on the other hand …

This note critically discusses the possible endogenous problems that microfinance sector in Bangladesh should seriously … are better option than microfinance. …

which could improve their lives. For this study, our theoretical a priori expectation is that provision of microfinance … reinforcement of the microfinance mechanism to propagate a soothing trend for poverty reduction and economic growth. …

This article presents a practical methodology to monitor poverty changes among microfinance clients using available … microfinance practitioners to verify whether their clients are moving out of poverty and validate management strategies aiming to …

This paper provides a critical review of aid effectiveness in Bangladesh. Focusing on the contributions of major donors … adequate and reliable quantitative data. Foreign aid has had a mixed performance in Bangladesh. The responsibility for the … this middle-income status is paved with many obstacles: policy, infrastructure, and weak governance. Even though Bangladesh …