-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 …

, turned out to be poor women. For a number of reasons that are explored below, the program was later reformed into a cash … relative impact of such policies on some of the most vulnerable members of society; namely, poor women. An examination of the … Argentine experience based on survey evidence and fieldwork reveals that poor women overwhelmingly want paid work opportunities …

environment and weak institutional framework in particular in Poland. We use a purposive sample of 5 social cooperatives, and … report the data from several in-depth interviews with their representatives as well as observation from the cooperatives. We …

three villages of Bangladesh in 2013. In spite of having no direct effects, we find that microcredit borrowing has an …