Does microcredit reach the poor and vulnerable? Evidence from northern Bangladesh

By S. Amin, A. Rai, Giorgio Topa. 2003

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Safety Research, Soil Science

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Health shocks and consumption smoothing in rural households: Does microcredit have a role to play? (2012, background): “Amin et al. (2003) find that poor households that join in a microcredit program tend to have better access to insurance and smoothing devices compared to those who do not.”
Microfinance in Northeast Thailand: Who Benefits and How Much? (2003, background): “The studies by Park and Ren (2001) and Amin et al. (2003) also evaluate targeting by comparing participants and nonparticipants after program effects have been realized, potentially biasing the results.”
Access to Rural Credit Markets in Developing Countries, the Case of Vietnam: A Literature Review (2019, background): “Poverty alleviation does not come from the direct provision of credit to the poor [25], even in reality the poorest are likely to be excluded from the formal lenders because of their bigger risk than the other group of population [91,92].”
Microfinance and Climate Change Adaptation (2009, background): “…case studies of specific MFIs and specific recipient communities have concluded that the net impact of various gains and losses associated with MFS is to empower women and reduce vulnerability (Amin et al. 2003; Anderson et al. 2002; Elahi and Danopoulos 2004; Khandker 2005; Mahmud 2003).”
Measuring Vulnerability: The Director's Cut (2002, background): “This approach to the measurement of vulnerability (Amin et al. (1999); Glewwe and Hall (1998); Dercon and Krishnan (2000)) focuses on the response of households’ consumption expenditures to various observable shocks, such as drought or idiosyncratic fluctuations in income.”
Great Expectations: Microfinance and Poverty Reduction in Asia and Latin America (2005, unknown): “Within Asia, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam have the largest number of members served and the largest distribution of loans and mobilization of savings as a share of GNP in the world.”
Do Property Titles Increase Credit Access Among the Urban Poor (2004, background): “Although land is an advantageous form of collateral due to the fact that it cannot be removed and does not easily devalue, it is widely believed that many borrowers face barriers securing transactions with land simply because ownership rights are not formally documented.(3) Consistent with this noti”