constrained. This paper analyses whether, and how, micro-finance supports a large public health subsidy program in the developing … cluster randomised controlled experiment of a sanitation micro-finance program that coincided with the launch of the SBM …

-- 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 …: Peru, Colombia, Bolivia, Ecuador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua. It uses information that these MFIs have collected in terms of …-indebtedness. Increased banking saturation is changing the landscape of microfinance, pushing MFIs who do not explicitly target the poor to …

of the microfinance market in Uzbekistan. This includes credit unions and microfinance organizations (MFOs), and touches … focuses on issues pertaining to the non-bank institutions active in microfinance, as well as those that relate to the banks … the assessment. This policy note on microfinance does not address larger issues regarding the macro-economy or banking …