This paper aims to investigate whether access to microfinance loan and job under National Rural Employment Guarantee … Scheme (NREGS) have any significant impact to bring life satisfaction as well as happiness, an important well-being indicator … to the villagers of West Bengal. Here we consider microfinance system under individual liability loan contract and joint …

Microfinance institutions are used to claim that their impact goes beyond money since rescuing from exclusion …. Our paper aims to verify the validity of this claim by evaluating whether access to microfinance loans has significant …

This paper applies the financing constraint approach to study whether microfinance institutions improved access to … microbusinesses’ financing constraint. This approach is applicable to evaluating microfinance impact in other countries. …

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 …