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

In this paper, we investigate the role of output market imperfections in constraining the microfinance program to … from northern Bangladesh, we find strong support for the model predictions. NGO coverage in a village, measured both by … results have important implications for development economics in general and impact assessment of microfinance program in …

. This paper addresses one important aspect of the linkage by empirically investigating the impact of the microfinance … program expansion on the moneylender interest rates in Bangladesh, and finds that moneylender interest rates increase with … microfinance program expansion. MFI program expansion increases moneylender interest rates in the villages in which more loans are …

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 …

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 …