microcredits in Uzbekistan. Residents living closer to microfinance institutions are propensity score matched to those further away … using both household and village characteristics. Households located closer to microfinance institutions have larger …

celebrated for showing that microcredit reduces poverty, a much hoped-for possibility (though one not confirmed by recent … randomized controlled trials). We show that the original results on poverty reduction disappear after dropping outliers, or when …

overall poverty rate and other aspects of sustainable socio-economic development. The objective of this study is to identify …

Microfinance institutions (MFIs) are often seen by aid practitioners as a manifestly effective means of improving the … have been carried out more “rigorously”, but in both regions the evidence that microfinance is reaching the core poor is …

Microfinance institutions (MFIs) are often seen by aid practitioners as a manifestly effective means of improving the … have been carried out more “rigorously”, but in both regions the evidence that microfinance is reaching the core poor is …

microlending to the poor, incorporated a widely-used poverty measurement tool into their loan applications and tested the tool …

Microfinance has played a key role in including the poor in financial markets. This paper uses microfinance data to … development of microfinance markets. Our approach accounts for the dynamic and heterogeneous impacts that key drivers may have … causal relationships. Our key findings indicate that: i) Microfinance markets are more responsive to the needs of the bottom …