In this paper, we address main entrepreneurship puzzles prevailing in microfinance literature. The literature has shown that it is much more difficult to improve business outcomes for female entrepreneurs than for their male counterparts. This paper provides new empirical evidence to...

This paper is an attempt to understand the factors behind low contract renewal rates frequently observed in insurance programs in poor countries. This is done on the basis of the experience of a microinsurance health program in India. We show that deficient information about the insurance...