A wide range of financial inclusion programmes seek to increase poor people's access to
financial services to enhance the welfare of poor and low‐income households in low‐and …

The study uses commune fixed-effects regressions to estimate the effect of natural disasters
on welfare and poverty of rural households in Vietnam, and subsequently examines …

Background The concept of microcredit was first introduced in Bangladesh by Nobel Peace
Prize winner Muhammad Yunus. Professor Yunus started Grameen Bank (GB) more than 30 …

The volume of literature recognizing the importance of rural credit in develo** countries
has grown significantly in recent years. However, previous studies have mainly assumed …

ABSTRACT A major debate in microfinance focuses on the existence of a trade‐off between
the financial sustainability of microfinance institutions (MFIs) and their outreach to poor …

Microfinance is globally trusted for corroborating the upliftment of the rural vulnerable poor
sections. It is looked upon as a means of credit-based poverty alleviation through financial …

Microcredit programs have a positive socioeconomic impact on the rural female borrowers of
Bangladesh. This study suggests that the microcredit programs do not help the borrowers to …

Extant literature has extensively explored microcredit's impacts, confirming its essential role
in poverty alleviation. However, most studies focus on poverty measures that exclusively …

Viewed from the lens of 'land grabs', Vietnam's fast-growing tree plantations look like an
anomaly; many of them are tiny, owned and operated by rural households. In contrast …

Since its birth in 1970s, microcredit has been growing rapidly with the aim to reduce poverty
and to promote economic growth. Using the large panel data of the Vietnam Access to …