.Khandker addresses these questions using household level panel data from Bangladesh. The findings confirm that micro-finance benefits the …Micro-finance supports mainly informal activities that often have low market demand. It may be thus hypothesized that … the aggregate poverty impact of micro-finance in an economy with low economic growth is modest or nonexistent. The …

Microfinance programs have become increasingly popular instruments in development policy. Many microfinance programs … of many governments in developing countries is to reduce fertility. Since microfinance is widespread in Bangladesh, it is … an interesting country in which to study the potential for microfinance to assist in achieving a goal of fertility …

Microfinance supports mainly informal activities that often have a low return and low market demand. It may therefore … be hypothesized that the aggregate poverty impact of microfinance is modest or even nonexistent. If true, the poverty … impact of microfinance observed at the participant level represents either income redistribution or short run income …

This article examines the determinants of household income among urban and rural areas in India and evaluates … characteristics of the head of the household (age, educational level, marital status, and gender) and household characteristics (main … occupational type, household size, and social status) on monthly per capita expenditure through conditional mean least squares (LS …