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microfinance

Description: The provision of small-scale financial services, especially loans, to low-income people and small enterprises underserved by conventional banking.
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The Microfinance Promise
1999 · Jonathan Morduch · Journal of Economic Literature · 2,358
The Miracle of Microfinance? Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation
2015 · Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, et al. · American Economic Journal Applied Economics · 2,074
Social Capital and the Collective Management of Resources
2003 · Jules Pretty · Science · 1,615
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Building Social Business Models: Lessons from the Grameen Experience
2010 · Muhammad Yunus, Bertrand Moingeon, et al. · Long Range Planning · 1,464
Poor economics: a radical rethinking of the way to fight global poverty
2011 · Choice Reviews Online · 1,428
Rural credit programs and women's empowerment in Bangladesh
1996 · Syed M. Hashemi, Sidney Ruth Schuler, et al. · World Development · 1,341
The economics of microfinance
2006 · Choice Reviews Online · 1,319
Microfinance and Poverty: Evidence Using Panel Data from Bangladesh
2005 · S. R. Khandker · The World Bank Economic Review · 1,257
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The Diffusion of Microfinance
2012 · Abhijit Banerjee, Arun G. Chandrasekhar, et al. · Science · 1,252
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Group lending, repayment incentives and social collateral
1995 · Timothy Besley, Stephen Coate · Journal of Development Economics · 1,227
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Sustainable intensification in African agriculture
2011 · Jules Pretty, Camilla Toulmin, et al. · International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability · 1,222
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The Microfinance Revolution
2001 · Marguerite S. Robinson · World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks · 1,183
Who takes the credit? Gender, power, and control over loan use in rural credit programs in Bangladesh
1996 · Anne Marie Goetz, Rina Sen Gupta · World Development · 1,030
Returns to Capital in Microenterprises: Evidence from a Field Experiment *
2008 · Suresh de Mel, David McKenzie, et al. · The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 1,015
Financial performance and Outreach: A Global Analysis of Leading Microbanks
2007 · Robert Cull, Asli Demirgu¨ç‐Kunt, et al. · The Economic Journal · 1,015
The Microfinance Schism
2000 · Jonathan Morduch · World Development · 991
Six Randomized Evaluations of Microcredit: Introduction and Further Steps
2015 · Abhijit Banerjee, Dean Karlan, et al. · American Economic Journal Applied Economics · 984
Portfolios of the poor: how the world's poor live on $2 a day
2009 · Choice Reviews Online · 945
Who Takes the Credit?: Gender, Power, and Control Over Loan Use in Rural Credit Programmes in Bangladesh
1994 · Anne Marie Goetz, Rina Sen Gupta · OpenGrey (Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique) · 928
Effect of a structural intervention for the prevention of intimate-partner violence and HIV in rural South Africa: a cluster randomised trial
2006 · Paul M Pronyk, James R Hargreaves, et al. · The Lancet · 919
Migrant Transnationalism and Modes of Transformation
2004 · Steven Vertovec · International Migration Review · 893
The economics of lending with joint liability: theory and practice
1999 · Maitreesh Ghatak, Timothy W. Guinnane · Journal of Development Economics · 880
Using Experimental Economics to Measure Social Capital and Predict Financial Decisions
2005 · Dean S Karlan · American Economic Review · 845
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Finance against poverty
1997 · Journal of Development Economics · 832
New Financial Alternatives in Seeding Entrepreneurship: Microfinance, Crowdfunding, and Peer–to–Peer Innovations
2014 · Garry Bruton, Susanna Khavul, et al. · Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice · 824
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