Recently, microfinance has come under increasing criticism raising questions of the validity of iconic studies which … have justified the microfinance phenomenon. This paper applies propensity score matching (PSM), which has become widely … rigorous evidence supporting claims that microfinance benefits the poorest especially when targeted on women. After carefully …

Microfinance (MF) and family planning (FP) are thought to be very important interventions in the promotion of human …, Schuler and Riley (1996); Schuler and Hashemi (1994), using naive methods find that MF in Bangladesh increases contraceptive … outweigh substitution. Steele et al (2001), also using data from Bangladesh from around the same time as the PKML study, come …

has been adapted from the Grameen Bank, Bangladesh is more effective in serving the micro economy than the indigenously …

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

Calculated under the framework of economic-profit counting, the productivity of microcredit in Bangladesh is found very …