Microfinance contracts have proven able to secure high rates of loan repayment in the face of limited liability and …, though, is at the heart of the promise that microfinance can deliver poverty reduction while not relying on ongoing subsidy …

This paper describes a new index of the quality of the business environment for microfinance institutions (the Global … Microscope on the Microfinance Business Environment). Regressions are used to validate the index by linking it and its … subcomponents to microfinance outcomes. The main findings are that the components of the index related to the supporting …

The major form of microfinance in India is that based on women's Self Help Groups (SHGs), which are small groups of 10 …

key microfinance approaches in India, taking a close look at the most dominant among these, the Self Help Group (SHG) Bank …: India's rural poor currently have very little access to finance from formal sources. Microfinance approaches have tried to …This paper reviews the current level and pattern of access to finance for India's rural poor and examines some of the …

and middle-income countries-India, Indonesia, Tanzania, and Paraguay. The authors describe two methods-testing doctors and …

surveys in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Indonesia, and Mexico, along with special surveys from India and Tonga, show similar …

expenditures, as in China and India, the impact was magnified. Increases in recurrent expenditure, which were made in Brazil and … India, acted as short-term stimulants; additional public investment, as in China, appears to have had a more lasting impact … integration, resulting in differential magnitude and timing of the crisis impact. For example, coastal states in India were …

Drawing on recently completed firm-level surveys in Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Honduras, India, Nicaragua, Pakistan …