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Karlan, Dean; Morduch, Jonathan - In: Handbook of development economics : volume 5, (pp. 4703-4784). 2010

Expanding access to financial services holds the promise to help reduce poverty and spur economic development. But, as a practical matter, commercial banks have faced challenges expanding access to poor and low-income households in developing economies, and nonprofits have had limited reach. We...

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Microfinance Meets the Market

Cull, Robert; Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli; Morduch, Jonathan - In: Journal of Economic Perspectives 23 (2009) 1, pp. 167-92

In this paper, we examine the economic logic behind microfinance institutions and consider the movement from socially … oriented nonprofit microfinance institutions to for-profit microfinance. Drawing on a large dataset that includes most of the … world's leading microfinance institutions, we explore eight questions about the microfinance "industry": Who are the lenders …

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Do interest rates matter? credit demand in the Dhaka Slums

Dehejia, Rajeev; Montgomery, Heather; Morduch, Jonathan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

-covering levels without losing customers. This claim is at the core of sustainable microfinance strategies that aim to provide banking …

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Access to Finance

Karlan, Dean; Morduch, Jonathan - In: Handbook of Development Economics

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The Impact of Microcredit on the Poor in Bangladesh : Revisiting the Evidence

Roodman, David - 2013

We replicate and reanalyse the most influential study of microcredit impacts (Pitt and Khandker, 1998). That study was celebrated for showing that microcredit reduces poverty, a much hoped-for possibility (though one not confirmed by recent randomized controlled trials). We show that the...

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