through Sustainable Islamic Microfinance in Pakistan: A Participatory Products Development Perspective; Muhammad … Shaherbano -- 11. The Impact of the Islamic Banking Industry on Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction in Pakistan; M. Abubakar … Siddique, Miraj-ul-Haq and Memoona Rahim -- 12. Alleviating Poverty through Islamic Microfinance: Factors and Measures of …

-experimental design, in Bangladesh and Pakistan. Three borrower groups are compared: Current borrowers; Pipeline borrowers and Non …. For Pakistan, there is no evidence that micro-credit effects employment. However, for Bangladesh, there is robust evidence …

celebrated for showing that microcredit reduces poverty, a much hoped-for possibility (though one not confirmed by recent … randomized controlled trials). We show that the original results on poverty reduction disappear after dropping outliers, or when …