Females benefit in the long term while males benefit in the short term. Only males benefit significantly in the rural areas. Our results indicate a negative, though non-significant, impact of microfinance on male beneficiaries in urban areas

Crop insurance in the Sahel enables farmers to take a higher risk by getting more fertilizers. Crop insurance in the Sahel stimulates the production of insured farmers compared with non-insured farmers. However, despite the apparent differences in fertilizers and production, the two groups get...

The evaluation of the poverty of beneficiaries is a topic rarely raised as is the impact of microfinance. The different results across studies and contexts are based on methodologies and different technical analyses. Our study contributes to the debate from survey data collected in Mali in 2007...

The microfinance field has become a place of confrontation between different theoretical and empirical approaches. Microfinance would enable a group of people with widely different characteristics and/or unbanked out of the stranglehold of moneylenders, therefore including them financially and...