Khandker, Shahidur R.; Faruqee, Rashid; Samad, Hussain A. - 2013
Microcredit programs in Bangladesh have experienced spectacular growth in recent years, with a growing number of … assets. Using a long panel of household survey data from Bangladesh, the paper finds that some 26 percent of microcredit … more than debt over time. Microcredit borrowers in Bangladesh are thus not necessarily over-indebted. But when borrowing is …