In this chapter, Awaworyi Churchill conducts a meta-analysis to review the impact of microfinance on poverty reduction and microenterprise performance. He considers four proxies for poverty and three for microenterprise performance in order to examine the empirical evidence and to provide a...

We review the empirical evidence on the impact of microcredit on poverty in Bangladesh. Drawing on evidence from seven empirical studies with 306 estimates, we examine the impact of microcredit on three proxies of poverty - income, assets and consumption/expenditure. After addressing issues of...