-sectional household surveys, to missing panel household data. The paper focuses on methods that aim to compare trends and dynamic patterns …

This paper uses long panel survey data spanning over 20 years to examine the dynamics of microcredit programs in … Bangladesh. With the phenomenal growth of microfinance institutions representing 30 million members with over $2 billion of … induced impact on household welfare. A dynamic panel model is used to address a number of issues, such as whether credit …

In recent years there has been a rapid increase in the presence and growth of greenfield microfinance institutions in … Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper uses regressions to benchmark those African greenfields relative to other microfinance … providers and finds that greenfields grew faster in terms of deposits and lending, improved their profitability to levels …

effects of the in-kind grants are large and positive for both males and females, the gain in profits is almost zero for women … with initial profits below the median, suggesting that capital alone is not enough to grow subsistence enterprises owned by … business profits. The results for men also suggest a lower impact of cash, but differences between cash and in-kind grants are …

Panel data conventionally underpin the analysis of poverty mobility over time. However, such data are not readily … paper proposes a method to construct synthetic panel data from cross sections which can provide point estimates of poverty … mobility. In contrast to traditional pseudo-panel methods that require multiple rounds of cross-sectional data to study poverty …

Microfinance is generally seen as a way to fix credit markets and unleash the productive capacities of poor people who … are dependent on self-employment. The microfinance sector has grown quickly since the 1990s, paving the way for other …, generating a backlash against microfinance. This paper reconsiders the claims about microfinance, highlighting the diversity in …

This paper describes a new index of the quality of the business environment for microfinance institutions (the Global … Microscope on the Microfinance Business Environment). Regressions are used to validate the index by linking it and its … subcomponents to microfinance outcomes. The main findings are that the components of the index related to the supporting …