This paper addresses whether microcredit participants in Bangladesh are trapped in poverty and debt, as many critics …, invest in children's schooling, and be lifted out of poverty. This is not to say that non-participants have failed to … of poverty reduction have been higher for participants. Testing the net effect of microcredit programs requires applying …

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 …

channels, a significant impact on poverty reduction is achieved under more restrictive conditions. These conditions revolve … examines the extent to which micro-credit reduces poverty and vulnerability through a case study of BRAC, one of the largest … providers of micro-credit to the poor in Bangladesh. Household consumption data collected from 1,072 households is used to show …