Most Grameen type Micro Finance Institutes (MFIs) vouch to providing for the credit needs of informal businesses being run by poor women. There is ample evidence cited in the form of case-stories of women who have reared successful informal businesses, using microcredit. However there is scant...

This article investigated varieties of livelihoods strategies employed by some informal women traders doing business at flea markets in the Harare Business Districts of the Harare Province. The study was informed by the Sustainable Livelihood Approach proffered by the Swedish International...

We employ 2011–2014 panel data of eleven villages in Cambodia to investigate the impact of microcredit access on paddy quantity and income, expenditure on inputs of paddy production, and self-employment income. The panel data enables us to implement difference-in-differences and triple...