How Microfinance Fights Poverty: Impact, Evidence, and What Actually Works
GGI Insights
When Muhammad Yunus lent $27 to 42 basket weavers in rural Bangladesh in 1974, he was testing a simple hypothesis: that poor people could be trusted with credit, and that small amounts of capital...
Table of contents
What Is Microfinance and How Does It Work
What Did the Grameen Bank Prove About Lending to the Poor
What Does the RCT Evidence Actually Show About Microcredit