The objective of this paper is to estimate the impacts of medium and long term participation in microfinance programs … estimates indicate that the benefits from microfinance vary more than proportionately with the duration of participation in a … basis for assessing the effectiveness of microfinance lending. …

stylized facts from Bangladesh show that microfinance institutions pay a premium on commitment savings with respect to flexible …

in Bangladesh. We find that households' access to microfinance reduces the incidence of borrowing from informal sources …This paper examines how availability of microfinance influences households' borrowing from informal sources in village … with respect to occupation, which can be explained by differing trends in occupational transition between microfinance …

This paper examines how availability of microfinance influences households’ borrowing from informal sources in village … economies. It uses a unique household level panel data set, which spans more than two decades (1987–2008), from rural Bangladesh …. We find that households’ access to microfinance reduces the incidence of borrowing from informal sources, but not the …

in the river islands of northern Bangladesh, where a substantial portion of dwellers could be categorized as ultra … the ultra-poor. Microfinance institutions may need to design better credit contracts to address the poor's needs. …

This paper uses cross-country and panel data set to test the significance of microfinance on income inequality … microfinance in reducing inequality at the macro level. Moreover, our results suggest that microfinance loans can lead to improve … recommendations to policymakers, as they could generate suitable strategies to consider microfinance institutions as a more popular …

Does microfinance support the empowerment of female borrowers? Results of studies analyzing microfinance and … empowerment delivered mixed results. In order to explore whether microfinance influences empowerment, the paper compares women in … higher loan cycles of a Pakistani microfinance institution with those in the first loan cycle regarding their empowerment …