microlenders: male and higher-income entrepreneurs. In all, our results suggest that microcredit works broadly through risk …

groups (SHGs). Indian SHGs are unique in that they are mainly NGOformed microfinance groups but later funded by commercial …

, small- and medium-sized enterprises (MicSMEs) and poor households. The overall policy environment for promoting microfinance …

current inflationary environment, the war in Ukraine and the aftermath of the pandemic on the SME financing environment. The … publication first discusses the general market environment and then covers the markets for SME equity and debt products. In …

In the large literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of … more than 500 entrepreneurs as a source of exogenous variation, and ask whether this variation can explain shifts in firm … performance. Using longitudinal data, we find large and sustained effects of entrepreneurs at all levels of the performance …

paper examines the effects of an intervention in Tanzania, aimed at reducing PHL of maize growing farmers during maize …

corruption. By means of a comparative case study of Tanzania and Uganda, it shall be explored whether a more streamlined or …