mistake. Thus, the EDC sub-component should be reformulated and revitalized following the program design of the Bangladesh …

There has been a rising concern that microfinance is abandoning its mission to serve the poor. Based on a longitudinal … analyzes its relationship with household wealth. It is found that nongovernmental microfinance has expanded rapidly by serving …

dimensions of poverty by utilizing primary data collected from 78 villages in Bangladesh using a participatory approach …. Employing the developed model, a comparative analysis has been performed between microfinance-driven government (GO) and NGO … Bangladesh. It is observed that GO agencies are more effective in enhancing ‘economic wellbeing’ of the poor, whereas NGOs are …

study concentrates on participation or non-participation in employment, with non-participation defined broadly to include … difficulties, data from the British Household Panel Study are used to construct models of the probability of being in employment …, controlling for various constraints. Starting from the position that all non-employment is voluntary, possible constraints are …

This paper is the first to draw a global picture of worldwide microfinance equity by taking full advantage of daily … quoted prices. We revisit previous findings showing that investors should consider microfinance as a self-standing sector …. Our results are threefold. First, microfinance has become less risky and more closely correlated with the financial sector …