The global microfinance movement is driven by the claim that once poor micro-entrepreneurs are provided access to … substantiate this claim. This paper reports on a field experiment conducted in Pakistan, in co-operation with Akhuwat microfinance … microfinance institutions in Pakistan. …

The global microfinance movement is driven by the claim that once poor micro-entrepreneurs are provided access to … substantiate this claim. This paper reports on a field experiment conducted in Pakistan, in co-operation with Akhuwat microfinance … microfinance institutions in Pakistan …

microcredit, assessing both the general impact of the intervention and the heterogeneity across contexts. The general impact on …% households who previously operated businesses before microcredit expansion. A cautious assessment of the correlations between …

address this question through a randomized experiment with 799 microfinance clients holding microbusinesses in India. In … treated branches, borrowers select between the standard rigid microfinance contract and a more expensive innovative contract …

study the implications of this for trust and trustworthiness. Trustworthy individuals are more \optimistic" than …

Microcredit loans were traditionally extended to groups of people. However, there is no clear evidence that joint …. Utilizing the exogenous shift from individual to joint liability lending by a microfinance organization in Pakistan, we find …

preference over borrowers in micro-finance lending. We distinguish between perceptions of transaction-related factors, such as …