In an increasingly congested market for financial institutions in the major cities of Bangladesh, United Leasing … institutions were not yet focusing, rural Bangladesh. The smart lesson describes how IFC South Asia Enterprise Development Facility … rural Bangladesh …

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 …

Bangladesh is highly vulnerable to natural disasters, its high population density lowers transaction costs considerably. This … (MSMEs) and marginal, small, and medium-size farmesr (MSMFs). In Bangladesh these are also referred to as the missing middle … -- a segment not served by banks or microfinance institutions (MFIs). The report also identifies constraints that financial …

promoting and serving survival and subsistence level economic activities, particularly for poor female clients. In Bangladesh …