. It also explores the role of microfinance in supporting the utilization of the trade facilitation initiatives. The role … of microfinance in this context is to complement trade facilitation measures in order to allow the poor to benefit from … facilitation under the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) programme of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). Thailand has implemented …

economic activities of households and institutions in rural and urban Thailand. The project represents one of the most …

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 …

addition to rural and community banks and microfinance institutions. Using recent household survey data, we ascertain the …

reduction was especially successful. Thailand and Viet Nam are two emerging market economies where poverty rates are now below ….25 poverty line. Also, Thailand, after the economic crisis, with 19% of children underweight, is still above the World Health …

population, with the aim of improving that impact. We analyze over 18,000 women micro-finance clients of the Negros Women for … change in poverty score. -- micro-finance ; Grameen ; poverty ; quantile regression …

Although microfinance institutions across the world are moving from group lending towards individual lending, this …