This paper describes a unique data set with information on clients from Caja Los Andes, one of the leading microfinance …

This paper analyzes the impact of microfinance loans on productivity and growth of micro-enterprises using a unique … client database from Caja Los Andes, one of the leading microfinance providers in Bolivia. Our results show that the clients …

competition between a bank and a microfinance institution (MFI), geographical distance and transportation costs alone are no …

though they relax financing constraints. We relate this insight to the limited success of group-based microfinance in … loans ; social ties ; altruism ; peer-to-peer lending ; small business ; entrepreneurial finance ; microfinance ; missing …

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. …

Over the last 35 years, microfinance has been generally regarded as an effective policy tool in the fight against … address this question, we conduct a systematic review of the quantitative literature of microfinance's impacts in the … the limited comparability of outcomes and the heterogeneity of microfinance-lending technologies, together with a …

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