We review the empirical evidence on the impact of microcredit on poverty in Bangladesh. Drawing on evidence from seven … empirical studies with 306 estimates, we examine the impact of microcredit on three proxies of poverty - income, assets and …

change in poverty score. -- micro-finance ; Grameen ; poverty ; quantile regression …This paper aims to evaluate the impact of a microlending program on ameliorating measured poverty within its client … population, with the aim of improving that impact. We analyze over 18,000 women micro-finance clients of the Negros Women for …

This paper analyzes a database of over 18,000 women micro-finance clients of the Negros Women for Tomorrow Foundation … (NWTF), a database using the Progress Out of Poverty (PPI) Scorecard as a measure of poverty. Analysis using both OLS and … measured poverty. Loan size, duration, and the economic activity supported all have strongly identifiable effects. Moreover …

The purpose of the present study is to examine whether microfinance reduces poverty in Bangladesh drawing upon the … microfinance programmes. It has been found by treatment effects model applied to panel data that the simple household access to … general loans from microfinance institutions (MFIs) did not increase per capita household income significantly, but household …

This paper focuses on microcredit, a financial tool adopted in many countries to fight financial exclusion and poverty …

This paper focuses on microcredit, a financial tool adopted in many countries to fight financial exclusion and poverty …

program in Bangladesh, and find that our measures of multidimensional poverty have fallen significantly for participants. This …Many poverty, safety net, training, and other social programs utilize multiple screening criteria to determine … multidimensional poverty measures (and their components) that address key participant deficits. We apply our methods to a BRAC ultra-poverty …

Microcredit program, originating in Bangladesh in the late 1970s, has played an important role to meet the financing … out of poverty have been recorded in a wide array of literature, the employment outcome of participating in a microcredit … program as a pathway to poverty reduction has been studied much less. Using two waves of longitudinal data on over 2000 …

-experimental design, in Bangladesh and Pakistan. Three borrower groups are compared: Current borrowers; Pipeline borrowers and Non …. For Pakistan, there is no evidence that micro-credit effects employment. However, for Bangladesh, there is robust evidence …

This paper considers the possibility of mission drift in microfinance; a situation where Microfinance Institutions … (MFIs) move away from targeting the poor and towards better-off clients. Using two different measures of poverty, the paper … examines whether microfinance institutions in Uganda follow a developmental objective by expanding their access to poorer …