The Impact of Microcredit on the Poor in Bangladesh: Revisiting the Evidence
By G. David Roodman, J. Morduch. 2014
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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Urban Studies
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- The Miracle of Microfinance? Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation (2013, unknown): “A finding of many studies of household decision-making is that an increase in women’s bargaining power leads to an increase in food and health expenditure (See Thomas (1990) and Duflo (2003)).”
- Does Microfinance Reduce Poverty in Bangladesh? New Evidence from Household Panel Data (2012, background): “Roodman and Morduch (2009) are critical of Pitt and Khandker (1998) but Pitt (2011a, b) provides a valid response to the critique.”
- Health shocks and consumption smoothing in rural households: Does microcredit have a role to play? (2012, background): “Rosenzweig and Wolpin (1993) find that in rural India, bullocks, while also used as a sources of mechanical power in agricultural production, are sold to smooth consumption in the face of income shocks.”
- Micro-entrepreneurship and subjective well-being: Evidence from rural Bangladesh (2019, background): “…erosion of social capital and exacerbation of economic vulnerabilities as its major problems, especially in poor, traditional contexts such as rural Bangladesh (Banerjee and Jackson, 2017; Bateman and Chang, 2012; Cons and Paprocki, 2010; Kent and Dacin, 2013; Roodman and Morduch, 2014).”
- Microfinance and the Illusion of Development: From Hubris to Nemesis in Thirty Years (2012, background): “Roodman and Morduch (2009), joined by Duvendack and Palmer-Jones (2011), mounted a serious challenge to the single most important piece of evidence routinely cited as the best evidence that microfinance had a strong poverty reduction impact – a study undertaken in the 1990s by then World Bank…”