Recently, microfinance has come under increasing criticism raising questions of the validity of iconic studies which … have justified the microfinance phenomenon. This paper applies propensity score matching (PSM), which has become widely … rigorous evidence supporting claims that microfinance benefits the poorest especially when targeted on women. After carefully …

Microfinance (MF) and family planning (FP) are thought to be very important interventions in the promotion of human …, Schuler and Riley (1996); Schuler and Hashemi (1994), using naive methods find that MF in Bangladesh increases contraceptive … outweigh substitution. Steele et al (2001), also using data from Bangladesh from around the same time as the PKML study, come …

Using two surveys from Bangladesh, this paper provides evidence on the effects of microfinance competition on village …

Using two surveys from Bangladesh, this paper provides evidence on the effects of microfinance competition on village …

Using two surveys from Bangladesh, this paper provides evidence on the effects of microfinance competition on village …

Recent microfinance crises have put into question the effectiveness of microfinance for poverty alleviation. In this … context, non-financial services supplied by microfinance institutions re-emerge as a mechanism to strengthen microfinance … impact of an internationally standardized business development program supplied by a Mexican microfinance institution to …

. This paper addresses one important aspect of the linkage by empirically investigating the impact of the microfinance … program expansion on the moneylender interest rates in Bangladesh, and finds that moneylender interest rates increase with … microfinance program expansion. MFI program expansion increases moneylender interest rates in the villages in which more loans are …

This paper evaluates the impact of microfinance on household consumption using a new, large and unique cross …-section data set from Bangladesh. The richness of the data and program eligibility criterion allow the use of a number of non … participants in microfinance. The overall results indicate that the effects of micro loans are not robust across all groups of poor …