NABARD, non-farm sector, microfinance, and cooperative banking reform-considering the specific and topical nature of these …

Using two surveys from Bangladesh, this paper provides evidence on the effects of microfinance competition on village …: proponents claim that competition of microfinance institutions reduces both the moneylender interest rate and households … address selection on unobservables without imposing standard exclusion restrictions, this paper finds that microfinance …

In recent years, the application of credit scoring in urban microfinance institutions became popular, while rural … microfinance institutions, which mainly lend to agricultural clients, are hesitating to adopt credit scoring. The present study … aims to explore whether microfinance credit scoring models are suitable for agricultural clients, and if such models can be …