-- Institutional growth and MFI performance -- Dynamics of microfinance benefits -- Are borrowers overindebted? -- Role of microfinance … in poverty transition -- Diversification of income and employment : how does microfinance affect agriculture …? -- Distributional impacts -- Effects of noncredit participation -- Does microfinance pay off? -- Beyond ending poverty -- Appendix A …

This report investigates the poverty outreach of 14 microfinance institutions (MFI) across six Latin American countries …-indebtedness. Increased banking saturation is changing the landscape of microfinance, pushing MFIs who do not explicitly target the poor to …

constrained. This paper analyses whether, and how, micro-finance supports a large public health subsidy program in the developing … world-the Swachh Bharat Mission-in achieving its aim of increasing uptake of individual household latrines. Exploiting a … cluster randomised controlled experiment of a sanitation micro-finance program that coincided with the launch of the SBM …

is currently the largest and fastest growing microfinance program in the developing world, has been aggressively promoted …

Microfinance programs like the Self Help Bank Linkage Program in India have been increasingly promoted for their … between microfinance and women's empowerment. This paper contributes by arguing that women empowerment takes place when women …

The provision of business training with microfinance leads to a positive impact on assets for the participating … matching, using data from the Self Help Group microfinance program in India. …

the first studies of the impact of 'microfinance plus', or the disbursement of services beyond credit. Indian SHGs are … mainly NGO-formed microfinance groups but funded by commercial banks. We correct for membership selection bias with data on …