The impact of group-based credit programs on the nutritional status of children by gender in rural Bangladesh is … evaluated. Lacking exclusion restrictions of the usual sort, the effect of credit program participation by gender of participant … is identified by imposing a factor structure on the regression errors. Women's credit is found to have a large and …

income diversification together with seasonal migration. A flexible microfinance scheme that provides both production and …

portfolio of newer microfinance institutions also has a greater share of lending for agriculture, and fewer savings products. …Over the past 20 years, Bangladesh has witnessed strong competition among microfinance institutions. Using program …-level panel data from 2005-2010, this paper studies the microfinance institutions'recent competitive roles in their pricing of …

less of a credit risk than men and women's groups more homogeneous than men's. Finally, the benefits of social capital …

in poverty transition -- Diversification of income and employment : how does microfinance affect agriculture … -- Institutional growth and MFI performance -- Dynamics of microfinance benefits -- Are borrowers overindebted? -- Role of microfinance …? -- Distributional impacts -- Effects of noncredit participation -- Does microfinance pay off? -- Beyond ending poverty -- Appendix A …