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Micro-Finance and Poverty
Shahidur R. Khandker
其他書名
Evidence Using Panel Data from Bangladesh
出版
SSRN
, 2016
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=gcrqzgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
Micro-finance supports mainly informal activities that often have low market demand. It may be thus hypothesized that the aggregate poverty impact of micro-finance in an economy with low economic growth is modest or nonexistent. The observed borrower-level poverty impact is then a result of income redistribution or short-run income generation.Khandker addresses these questions using household level panel data from Bangladesh. The findings confirm that micro-finance benefits the poorest and has sustained impact in reducing poverty among program participants. It also has positive spillover impact, reducing poverty at the villate level. But the effect is more pronounced in reducing extreme rather than moderate poverty.This paper - a product of Rural Development, Development Research Group - is part of a larger effort in the group to analyze the impact of targeted programs on the poor.