The provision of business training with microfinance leads to a positive impact on assets for the participating households. We correct for membership selection bias and account for potential training endogeneity with propensity score matching, using data from the Self Help Group microfinance...

We investigate if participation in Indian Self Help Group microfinance program (SHG) results in reducing vulnerability. Vulnerability estimates are constructed using crosssectional SHG rural household survey data, collected in 2003. The potential selection bias is eliminated by propensity score...

Micro credit or extending small loans for income generating activities to the poor, particularly women in predominantly developing countries has become one of the most popular development strategies of the last few years. Despite the fact that micro credit has liberated the women from poverty...

Questions about the processes of empowerment generated under each of these interventions and also suggests synergistic linkages between the two are raised.

We quantify the importance of peer effects in group lending by estimating a static game of incomplete information. In our model, group members make their repayment decisions simultaneously based on their household and loan characteristics as well as their expectations on other members’...

The paper is aimed at exploring as to how such co-operatives (i) function and deal with members while delivering micro finance; (ii) mobilise funds, and (iii) get shaped and reshape the contents of members’ participation in them. Qualitative and quantitative data collected from the offices...