findings show greater returns among men than among women; indeed, returns were not different from zero for women. The authors … social constraints limiting sales to local areas are not important. However, there is evidence that women invested grants … spend the grant on working capital and women on equipment. The gender gap is largest when male-dominated sectors are …

examine the implications for the institutions profitability and their outreach to small-scale borrowers and women. The tests … and less lending to women than in ordinary least squares regressions, although it is not significantly associated with … adjust loan sizes or lend less to women when supervised, but their profitability is significantly reduced. …

and serve more women as a fraction of customers than do commercialized microfinance banks, but their costs per dollar lent …

Female entrepreneurship is low in many developing economies partly because of constraints on women's time and mobility …, which are often reinforced by social norms. This paper analyzes a marketing experiment designed to encourage women to adopt … a new microcredit product. A brochure with the same content but two different covers was randomly distributed among male …

the poorest customers and women. Those institutions, as a group, charge their customers the highest fees in the sample but …

Group liability is often portrayed as the key innovation that led to the explosion of the microcredit movement, which … half of the 169 pre-existing group liability 'centers' of approximately twenty women to individual-liability centers …