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 … the limited comparability of outcomes and the heterogeneity of microfinance-lending technologies, together with a …

. We fill this gap by combining data on branch locations of the major microfinance institutions in Bangladesh with …Although microfinance started as a movement to improve women's economic wellbeing through increased female …

Bangladesh and Pakistan had very divergent experiences with aid after 1971. Politics in Pakistan was less inclusive in … to Pakistan had very negative effects on its political and economic evolution. In contrast in Bangladesh the less …

We use a recent first-hand linked employer-employee survey covering the formal sector of Bangladesh to explain gender …

Bangladesh, their coping strategies, and the extent to which policy support materialzed. While the poor as a whole demonstrated …

economic and financial transactions of 60 individuals and their families in a semi-rural setting in Bangladesh on a real …

Despite the severe negative economic shock associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, evidence from many contexts points to … demand side, the contact rate and task agreement rate increased by around 50 per cent versus the 'no shock' counterfactual …. These findings underline how the informal sector plays a valuable shock-absorbing role and that digital labour marketplaces …