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

The effectiveness of microfinance in improving the economic lives of the poor has been under extensive scrutiny in last … two decades. Most of the studies on Bangladesh focus on the poverty and women’s empowerment impacts of microfinance. We … facing adverse shocks. The available evidence suggests that the microfinance in Bangladesh helped free many households from …

quality of financial access. They are taking possibilities well beyond early models centered on providing microcredit for …

short cases to indicate how a social problem was addressed by a social innovation by entrepreneurial actions by microfinance … service providers. The cases are from microcredit, microguarantee, microinsurance and microequity. …

The donor community has enthusiastically embraced the concept of microfinance as a promising mechanism to attain the … support rendered by the donor community to microfinance programmes and the effectiveness of this particular outlet of official … microfinance as an instrument of microenterprise development and poverty reduction as well as its delivery mechanisms. The paper …

borrowers and bank employees can be harnessed to help overcome market failures. -- microcredit ; microfinance ; randomized …

This paper uses household data to test whether microfinance institutions created by the Malawian government in the mid … widespread microfinance programme has a negative and significant effect on borrowing from informal sources, reducing on average … lending ; microfinance ; evaluation methods …