We investigate if participation in Indian Self Help Group microfinance program (SHG) results in reducing vulnerability …. Vulnerability estimates are constructed using crosssectional SHG rural household survey data, collected in 2003. The potential … the SHG members, vulnerability is not significantly different between the SHG and non-SHG members. This result is found to …

Uncertainty and unpredictability faced by low-income households increase their vulnerability making poverty even more …. Going beyond the traditional poverty estimates, we use a vulnerability measure which quantifies the welfare loss associated …-SHG (control) members. Furthermore, we find that the poverty contributes to about 80 percent of the vulnerability faced by the …

Uncertainty and unpredictability faced by low-income households increase their vulnerability making poverty even more …. Going beyond the traditional poverty estimates, we use a vulnerability measure which quantifies the welfare loss associated …-SHG (control) members. Furthermore, we find that the poverty contributes to about 80 percent of the vulnerability faced by the …

be robust using sensitivity analysis and Rosenbaum bounds method. -- Microfinance ; Vulnerability ; Poverty ; Self Help …We investigate if participation in Indian Self Help Group microfinance program (SHG) results in reducing vulnerability …. Vulnerability estimates are constructed using crosssectional SHG rural household survey data, collected in 2003. The potential …

We investigate if participation in Indian Self Help Group microfinance program (SHG) results in reducing vulnerability …. Using theSHG rural household survey data collected in 2003, we examine the poverty and vulnerability profiles of SHG and non …-SHG rural, low-income household members. Our construction of the vulnerability is based on a methodology that allows for the …

We investigate if participation in Indian Self Help Group microfinance program (SHG) results in reducing vulnerability …. Vulnerability estimates are constructed using cross-sectional SHG rural household survey data, collected in 2003. The potential … the SHG members, vulnerability is not significantly different between the SHG and non-SHG members. This result is found to …

Over the last 35 years, microfinance has been generally regarded as an effective policy tool in the fight against … poverty. Yet, the question of whether access to credit leads to poverty reduction and improved wellbeing remains open. To … address this question, we conduct a systematic review of the quantitative literature of microfinance's impacts in the …

Over the last 35 years, microfinance has been generally regarded as an effective policy tool in the fight against … poverty. Yet, the question of whether access to credit leads to poverty reduction and improved wellbeing remains open. To … address this question, we conduct a systematic review of the quantitative literature of microfinance's impacts in the …

substitute for financial inclusion in energy poverty reduction in Ghana. Pooled data and two stage least squares techniques are … inclusion in energy poverty mitigation) is based on two main criteria: (i) a positive interactive effect relative to the …