addition to rural and community banks and microfinance institutions. Using recent household survey data, we ascertain the …

Over the last 35 years, microfinance has been generally regarded as an effective policy tool in the fight against … address this question, we conduct a systematic review of the quantitative literature of microfinance's impacts in the … developing world, and develop a theory of change that links inputs to impacts on several welfare outcomes. Overall, we find that …

functionality. This could lead to undersaving compared to a world without market or behavioural frictions. Undersaving can have …

We adapt the standardized Poverty Line Estimation Analytical Software (PLEASe) computer code stream based on Arndt and … spatial domains and limiting the number of iterations in the estimation of poverty lines are potential solutions. …

The majority of the world's poor, by income poverty and multi-dimensional poverty, now live in countries officially … classified by the World Bank as middle-income countries. Of course nothing happens when a country crosses a (somewhat) arbitrary … first is that the thresholds used to classify countries by the World Bank and extensively used by aid agencies, albeit with …

unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the world. The benchmark … consumption distribution, poverty, and inequality for the world and specific country aggregates. …