The donor community has enthusiastically embraced the concept of microfinance as a promising mechanism to attain the … support rendered by the donor community to microfinance programmes and the effectiveness of this particular outlet of official … microfinance as an instrument of microenterprise development and poverty reduction as well as its delivery mechanisms. The paper …

accumulating on the impact of microfinance activities on poverty reduction. In particular we ask what is the evidence on three …Despite the extensive spread of micro finance, studies on the actual impact of MFIs are often more ambivalent about its … impact than is the aid community. Much has been written on the range of institutional arrangements pursued in different …

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 …