Research on microcredit is now two decades old. There has been enormous progress in
understanding both what microcredit does and how. Yet a lot of what we have learned has …

Since the early microcredit programs up to the present, microfinance has grown
exponentially, as it has the academic interest on it as a research subject. Considering that …

This paper presents evidence on the effects of access to domestic and international markets
on per capita consumption of households using data from rural China. The econometric …

Provision of low-cost credit to the poor through self-help groups (SHGs) has been embraced
as a key poverty-reduction strategy in developing countries, but evidence on the impact of …

Climate vulnerability represents a highly complex public policy challenge for government
due to its interaction with diverse social, political, economic, and ecological factors across …

In this paper, we assess the long‐term effect of floods on food security (as measured by
calorie and micronutrient consumption) by applying an instrumental variable approach to …

We examine the relationship between board of director committees tasked with risk
management and environmental performance, based on a sample of 1466 firm-year …

This paper examines how availability of microfinance influences households' borrowing from
informal sources in village economies. It uses a unique household level panel data set …

Social business is a growing phenomenon in the emerging economy due to its appeal
toward reducing social problems from the society. Women's, especially rural women's …

This article explores an unexpected and overlooked consequence of the expansion of
microcredit: how it interacts with migration patterns. Drawing on qualitative research in …