Using two surveys from Bangladesh, this paper provides evidence on the effects of microfinance competition on village …: proponents claim that competition of microfinance institutions reduces both the moneylender interest rate and households … address selection on unobservables without imposing standard exclusion restrictions, this paper finds that microfinance …

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 … microfinance approaches to coexist. Private sector microfinanciers need to acquire greater professionalism, and the government can …

as Bangladesh, where they often have few work alternatives. In this paper, the authors descriptively examine the formal … and informal financial sectors of rural Bangladesh, placing special emphasis on differences between men and women. Their … analysis uses unique data on the credit and transfer behaviors of 1,800 households in rural Bangladesh. The authors focus on …

Over the past 20 years, Bangladesh has witnessed strong competition among microfinance institutions. Using program …-level panel data from 2005-2010, this paper studies the microfinance institutions' recent competitive roles in their pricing of … view that newer microfinance institutions are less risk-averse in their targeting, or that increased borrowing among …

The microfinance industry in Bangladesh currently provides access to credit to around 13 million poor households. The … author describes the factors that led to the scaling-up of micro-credit in Bangladesh, the impact this has had on the poor …, future challenges in Bangladesh, and possible lessons for other countries. The consensus in the literature is that micro …

Microcredit programs in Bangladesh have experienced spectacular growth in recent years, with a growing number of … returns to borrowing from microfinance institutions (MFIS), some borrowers might be taking loans that they will not be able to … assets. Using a long panel of household survey data from Bangladesh, the paper finds that some 26 percent of microcredit …

"The Impact of Microcredit on the Poor in Bangladesh: Revisiting the Evidence," by David Roodman and Jonathan Morduch … (1998) article "The Impact of Group-Based Credit on Poor Households in Bangladesh: Does the Gender of Participants Matter …

Using individual level employment data from Bangladesh, this paper presents empirical evidence on the relative … Bangladesh. …