Credit Programmes for the Poor and Seasonality in Rural Bangladesh

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Gender, Time Use, and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa (2006, background): “Pitt and Khandker (2002) show how group-based credit mechanisms used to fund self-employment by landless households in Bangladesh help to smooth 97 CHAPTER 5 Labor Shortages Despite Underemployment?”
Does microcredit reach the poor and vulnerable? Evidence from northern Bangladesh (2003, background): “While there have been numerous attempts to assess the impact of these programs on a variety of outcomes (Pitt and Khandker, 1998a, Morduch, 1998, and others), there has been little research on how well targeted modern microcredit programs actually are.1 This paper uses a unique data set from two vil”
Health shocks and consumption smoothing in rural households: Does microcredit have a role to play? (2012, background): “Pitt and Khandker (2002) use data from a single year and are thus unable to distinguish between short run and long run impact of shocks, which might not tell the full story.”
High Noon for Microfinance Impact Evaluations: Re-investigating the Evidence from Bangladesh (2012, methodology): “Other outcome variables have been addressed in other papers using the PnK dataset (Pitt et al., 1999; Pitt, 2000; McKernan, 2002; Menon, 2006; Pitt and Khandker, 2002; Pitt et al., 2003; Pitt et al., 2006), but are not covered in this article.”