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Access to microfinance and female labour force participationAlthough microfinance started as a movement to improve women’s economic well-being through increased female entrepreneurship in particular, its impact on women’s attitudes toward and participation in the labour market is not fully underst...
Microfinance female entrepreneurship WellbeingJournal Article
Improving Financial Inclusion through the Delivery of Cash Transfer Programmes: The Case of Mexico’s Progresa-Oportunidades-Prospera ProgrammeThis paper follows a quasi-experimental research design to assess the impact of the electronic payment system of Mexico’s Progresa-Oportunidades-Prospera (POP) programme...
Mathematical models (Economic development) Microeconomics MicrofinanceBook Chapter
Career dynamics and gender gaps among employees in the microfinance sectorFrom the book: Towards Gender Equity in Development
Gender gap Job mobility PromotionWorking Paper
Poverty and wellbeing impacts of microfinance: What do we know?Over the last 35 years, microfinance has been generally regarded as an effective policy tool in the fight against poverty. Yet, the question of whether access to credit leads to poverty reduction and improved wellbeing remains open...
Microfinance Poverty WellbeingWorking Paper
Career dynamics and gender gaps among employees in the microfinance sectorWhile microfinance institutions (MFIs) are increasingly important as employers in the developing world, there is little micro-level evidence on gender differences among MFI employees and MFIs’ relation to economic development...
Gender gap Job mobility PromotionWorking Paper
Loyalty, trust, and glass ceiling: The gender effect on microcredit renewalWhereas most research into microfinance tends to focus on the impact of access to such services, very little pays attention to what happens over time once a person becomes a client...
Gender Microfinance InequalityWorking Paper
Social Service Delivery and Access to Financial Innovation: The Impact of Oportunidades’ Electronic Payment System in MexicoThis paper follows a quasi-experimental research design to assess the impact of the electronic payment system of Mexico’s Oportunidades programme...
Mathematical models (Economic development) Microeconomics MicrofinanceResearch Brief
A Systematic Review of the Impact of Microfinance on PovertyMicrofinance evaluations reveal a positive impact on per capita income, non-land asset value and poverty incidence...
Microfinance Poverty WomenJournal Article
Microcredit, Labor, and Poverty Impacts in Urban MexicoImproved household accessibility to credit is a significant determinant of intra-household allocation of labor resources with important implications for productivity, income, and poverty status...
Microfinance Poverty Finance (Urban economics)Seminar
Evaluating the impact of training in a national microfinance program: Self help groups in IndiaPresented by: Dr Ranjula Bali Swain (Department of Economics, Uppsala University). Abstract This paper evaluates the impact of widespread training programs provided by the Self Help Group (SHG) program. Indian SHGs are mainly NGO-formed microfinance...
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From The Editor's Desk (October 2012)
Tony Addison UNU-WIDER is having a very active and successful autumn. Our climate change and development policy conference at the end of September attracted over 150 researchers and policy makers from across the world...
Economic development Elite (Social sciences) Equality and inequalityBlog
Jobs are Development
Carl-Gustav Lindén One important part of ReCom–Research and Communication on Foreign Aid is the sharing of results...
Economic assistance and foreign aid Economic development projects Structural adjustment (Economic policy)Blog
Microcredit and Poverty Alleviation: Can Microcredit Close the Deal?
M.G. Quibria In the wake of the worst famine of Bangladesh of the post-World War era Professor Muhammad Yunus launched a microcredit experiment in 1976 to assist a group of poor, highly indebted households, in Chittagong, Bangladesh...
Economic development Households IncomeBlog
From the Editor’s Desk (September 2012) Tony Addison Mid-September finds UNU-WIDER very busy preparing for our big conference on climate change and development policy that takes place later this month, as well as our WIDER Annual Lecture by Lant Pritchett of Harvard University (you can als...
Air pollution Agricultural innovations AgricultureWorking Paper
Microcredit and Poverty Alleviation: Can Microcredit Close the Deal?This paper explores the relationship between microcredit and poverty reduction. To investigate this question, we posit a bare-bone, household model that outlines the economic environment within which various types of family microenterprises operate...
Households Labour market MicrofinanceWorking Paper
Does an Educated Mind Take the Broader View? A Field Experiment on In-group Favouritism among Microcredit ClientsA number of studies document an in-group bias in social dilemma situations. While group structure and dynamics are important in shaping in-group favouritism, less attention has been paid to individual characteristics affecting favouritism...
Education Group decision making Microfinance