1. Introduction -- 2. Scope and method -- 3. Financial performance of CDFIs -- 4. CDFI clients : impacts on individuals -- 5. CDFI clients : community-level impacts -- 6. Fiscal impacts -- 7. Where next?

Improved household accessibility to credit is identified as a significant determinant of intra-household re-allocation of labour resources with important implications for productivity, income, and poverty status. However, credit accessibility could also have wider impacts on poverty if it leads...