This paper documents and analyzes gender differences in the use of financial services using individual-level data from … existence of significant gender gaps in ownership of accounts and usage of savings and credit products. Even after controlling … for a host of individual characteristics including income, education, employment status, rural residency and age, gender …

that double as more convenient, lower cost alternatives to formal branches) of the largest microfinance institution …

Microfinance is generally seen as a way to fix credit markets and unleash the productive capacities of poor people who … are dependent on self-employment. The microfinance sector has grown quickly since the 1990s, paving the way for other …, generating a backlash against microfinance. This paper reconsiders the claims about microfinance, highlighting the diversity in …