Recently, microfinance has come under increasing criticism raising questions of the validity of iconic studies which … have justified the microfinance phenomenon. This paper applies propensity score matching (PSM), which has become widely … rigorous evidence supporting claims that microfinance benefits the poorest especially when targeted on women. After carefully …

Using two surveys from Bangladesh, this paper provides evidence on the effects of microfinance competition on village …

rural households of north-western Bangladesh using a quasi-experimental analysis. A government organization - the Barindra …

Using two surveys from Bangladesh, this paper provides evidence on the effects of microfinance competition on village …

promoting and serving survival and subsistence level economic activities, particularly for poor female clients. In Bangladesh …

Calculated under the framework of economic-profit counting, the productivity of microcredit in Bangladesh is found very …

Microfinance (MF) and family planning (FP) are thought to be very important interventions in the promotion of human …, Schuler and Riley (1996); Schuler and Hashemi (1994), using naive methods find that MF in Bangladesh increases contraceptive … outweigh substitution. Steele et al (2001), also using data from Bangladesh from around the same time as the PKML study, come …

theoretical results using data from a household survey from Bangladesh. We show that various measures of expected income are …