determinants of household saving with special interest in the possible effects of network savings behavior on household savings … stimulate formal household savings making. We discuss the extent to which social networks may act as an effective information …

(positive) impact on households’ consumption (savings), even after we control for family income. We argue that people save to … inequality can strengthen the incentives of status-seeking savings by increasing the benefit of improving status and enlarging …

Microfinance (MF) and family planning (FP) are thought to be very important interventions in the promotion of human …

The existing theoretical analysis of microfinance focuses on the nature of the loan contract such as group liability … generation' debates in microfinance. Our analysis helps explain a number puzzles in microfinance such as (i) high repayment rates …

The effectiveness of microfinance in improving the economic lives of the poor has been under extensive scrutiny in last … two decades. Most of the studies on Bangladesh focus on the poverty and women’s empowerment impacts of microfinance. We … facing adverse shocks. The available evidence suggests that the microfinance in Bangladesh helped free many households from …