McKernan, Signe-Mary - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 84 (2002) 1, pp. 93-115
Microcredit programs provide a two-tiered approach to poverty alleviation: credit for the purchase of capital inputs in order to promote self-employment and noncredit services and incentives. These noncredit aspects may be an important component of the success of microcredit programs. However,...