In Mumbai to open an office of the Grameen Foundation, Professor Yunus spoke on the growing role of microfinance in the …

Studies of poverty dynamics relying solely on household income-expenditure surveys can yield noisy results …, overestimating transient poverty and underestimating persistence of poverty, especially for the poorest. In this study, we make use … including promotional, protective and transformative strategies to make a real dent on extreme poverty.[CFPR-TUP Working Paper …

Multiple Meanings of Money: How Women See Microfinance by Smita Premchander, V. Prameela, M. Chidambaranathan, L …

Using data from a survey of clients of a microfinance bank, Khushhali Bank, in 2005, the study revisited the survey … data and found that despite the Bank’s strict poverty-targeting program used in client selection and despite the surveyâ …

How has the microcredit movement managed to push financial frontiers? In a context in which borrowers vary in … risk-matching and intra-group diversification of risk using data on Thai microcredit borrowing groups. We propose a non …-diversification results reveal a potentially negative aspect of voluntary group formation and point to limitations of microcredit groups as …

pattern of programme participation. Our numerical simulations of data on household expenditures and membership of micro-credit …