Microfinance (MF) and family planning (FP) are thought to be very important interventions in the promotion of human …, Schuler and Riley (1996); Schuler and Hashemi (1994), using naive methods find that MF in Bangladesh increases contraceptive … outweigh substitution. Steele et al (2001), also using data from Bangladesh from around the same time as the PKML study, come …

Using two surveys from Bangladesh, this paper provides evidence on the effects of microfinance competition on village …

Using two surveys from Bangladesh, this paper provides evidence on the effects of microfinance competition on village …

Recent microfinance crises have put into question the effectiveness of microfinance for poverty alleviation. In this … context, non-financial services supplied by microfinance institutions re-emerge as a mechanism to strengthen microfinance … impact of an internationally standardized business development program supplied by a Mexican microfinance institution to …

. This paper addresses one important aspect of the linkage by empirically investigating the impact of the microfinance … program expansion on the moneylender interest rates in Bangladesh, and finds that moneylender interest rates increase with … microfinance program expansion. MFI program expansion increases moneylender interest rates in the villages in which more loans are …

The purpose of the present study is to examine whether microfinance reduces poverty in Bangladesh drawing upon the … microfinance programmes. It has been found by treatment effects model applied to panel data that the simple household access to … general loans from microfinance institutions (MFIs) did not increase per capita household income significantly, but household …

stylized facts from Bangladesh show that microfinance institutions pay a premium on commitment savings with respect to flexible …

This paper examines how availability of microfinance influences households’ borrowing from informal sources in village … economies. It uses a unique household level panel data set, which spans more than two decades (1987–2008), from rural Bangladesh …. We find that households’ access to microfinance reduces the incidence of borrowing from informal sources, but not the …

in the river islands of northern Bangladesh, where a substantial portion of dwellers could be categorized as ultra … the ultra-poor. Microfinance institutions may need to design better credit contracts to address the poor's needs. …

in Bangladesh. We find that households' access to microfinance reduces the incidence of borrowing from informal sources …This paper examines how availability of microfinance influences households' borrowing from informal sources in village … with respect to occupation, which can be explained by differing trends in occupational transition between microfinance …