Innovative women entrepreneurs can be agents of change and offer novel solutions to
global challenges. However, they face multiple barriers to growing their businesses. This …

Innovative women entrepreneurs can be agents of change and offer novel solutions to
global challenges. However, they face multiple barriers to growing their businesses. I review …

Microfinance contracts typically require a fixed repayment schedule that, while ensuring
repayment discipline, may inhibit entrepreneurship and business growth. In this article, I …

The modern microfinance industry was built on the idea that lenders could (and should)
profit while serving poor and excluded customers. This idea—that lenders could 'win'while …

We study the provision of financial services to small firms, consumers, and workers in
develo** countries as part of value chain relationships: value chain microfinance (VCMF) …

The potential of MSMEs in Indonesia is significant, contributing substantially to GDP and
employment provision. However, MSMEs face various challenges, especially in access to …

This study evaluates the impact of a randomized control trial (RCT) in China that introduced
externally funded village credit funds in poor, rural villages. In contrast to recent RCT-based …

While results from individual Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) often do not hold beyond
their setting, the accumulation of many RCTs can be used to guide policy. But how many …

We conduct the first field experiment of a performance-contingent microfinance contract. A
large food multinational wishes to help micro-distributors in its supply chain with the …

Hundreds of studies have examined the impacts of microfinance, finding mostly modest or
disappointing results. In this article, instead of asking whether microfinance works on …