Volume 29, Issue 4
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Introduction and Overview
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Micro?Credit Programme Evaluation: A Critical Review
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1998)summary Micro?credit programmes have emerged as an antipoverty instrument in many low?income countries. They target the poor, especially women, with financial services to help them become self?employed in rural non?farm ... -
Programme Impact Assessment in Micro?Finance: The Need for Analysis of Real Markets
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1998)summary Impact assessment in micro?finance has focused on the impact of services on users and the ability of the organisation delivering those services to sustain its operations into the future. However, a focus on building ... -
Impact of Credit on the Relative Well?Being of Women: Evidence from the Grameen Bank
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1998)summary This study examines the impact of credit on women's relative well?being in Grameen Bank's credit programmes. Using a bargaining model of the household, as extended by Amartya Sen, well?being has been defined in ... -
Participatory Learning for Women's Empowerment in Micro?Finance Programmes: Negotiating Complexity, Conflict and Change
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1998)summary Micro?finance programmes for women are currently promoted not only as a strategy for poverty alleviation but also for women's empowerment. However, the complexity of empowerment itself and interlinkages with policy ... -
Mis?Targeting by the Grameen Bank: A Possible Explanation
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1998)summary There has been an increased emphasis on the targeting efficiency of micro?credit programmes. In general, recent studies find a much higher incidence of mis?targeting (around 25?30 per cent) than previous studies ... -
Informal Credit Transactions of Micro?Credit Borrowers in Rural Bangladesh
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1998)summary Through a detailed study of informal credit transactions in a village in northern Bangladesh, the research empirically establishes that increased access to credit from micro?finance institutions (MFIs) in Bangladesh ... -
Can Mis?Targeting be Justified?: Insights from BRAC's Micro?CreditProgramme
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1998)summary This article discusses the arguments for and against the inclusion of ‘non?target’ households in BRAC's Rural Development Program (RDP). Using data collected from Matlab Thana in Bangladesh, the article finds that ... -
Attaining Outreach with Sustainability: A Case Study of a Private Micro?Finance Institution in Indonesia
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1998)summary Financial and economic deregulation in Indonesia since 1983 has encouraged the growth of micro?finance institutions (MFIs). Combined with sustained economic growth, this has resulted in drastic reductions in ... -
Donors and Sustainability in the Provision of Financial Services in Nigeria
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1998)summary The article discusses some of the issues surrounding sustainability in the provision of financial services by the Diocesan Development Services (DDS) in Nigeria. The article describes the history and growth of DDS ... -
Financial Sector Liberalisation: Should the Poor Applaud?
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1998)Summary Increasingly micro?finance is being encouraged to reformulate its primary focus from explicit antipoverty work to concentrate instead on financial sustainability. Much of this approach is predicated on neoclassical ...
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