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Microfinance study links
This listing supplements the references in Measuring the Impact of Microfinance, with links to all relevant studies we are currently aware of that are posted online. We encourage readers to submit additional studies to us at marketing@grameenfoundation.org.
Alexander, Gwen (2001): “An Empirical Analysis of Microfinance: Who are the Clients?” Paper presented at 2001 Northeastern Universities Development Consortium Conference.
http://www.bu.edu/econ/ied/neudc/papers/Alexander-final.doc
Armendáriz de Aghion, Beatriz, and Jonathan Morduch (2005): The Economics of Microfinance. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=10494
Barnes, Carolyn (2001): “Microfinance Program Clients and Impact: An Assessment of Zambuko Trust, Zimbabwe.” Washington, D.C.: AIMS.
http://www.microlinks.org/ev_en.php?ID=7209_201&ID2=DO_TOPIC
Barnes, Carolyn, Gary Gaile, and Richard Kimbombo (2001): “Impact of Three Microfinance Programs in Uganda.” Washington, D.C.: AIMS.
http://www.microlinks.org/ev_en.php?ID=7205_201&ID2=DO_TOPIC
Chen, Martha A., and Donald Snodgrass (2001): “Managing Resources, Activities, and Risk in Urban India: The Impact of SEWA Bank.” Washington, D.C.: AIMS.
http://www.microlinks.org/ev_en.php?ID=7251_201&ID2=DO_TOPIC
Cheston, Susy, and Larry Reed (1999): “Measuring Transformation: Assessing and Improving the Impact of Microcredit.” Washington, D.C.: Microcredit Summit Campaign.
http://www.microcreditsummit.org/papers/impactpaper.html
Coleman, Brett (1999): “The impact of group lending in Northeast Thailand.” Journal of Development Economics 60: 105-42.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0304-3878(99)00038-3
Coleman, Brett (2002): “Microfinance in Northeast Thailand: Who Benefits and How Much?” Manila: Asian Development Bank.
http://www.adb.org/Documents/ERD/Working_Papers/wp009.pdf
Copestake, James (2002): “Inequality and the Polarizing Impact of Microcredit: Evidence from Zambia’s Copperbelt.” Journal of International Development 14: 743-755.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jid.921
Copestake, James, Sonia Bhalotra, and Susan Johnson (2001): “Assessing the impact of microcredit: A Zambian case study.” Journal of Development Studies 37(4): 81-100.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00220380412331322051
Copestake, J., P. Dawson, J-P. Fanning, A. McKay and K. Wright-Revolledo (2005): “Monitoring diversity of poverty outreach and impact of microfinance: a comparison of methods using data from Peru.” Forthcoming, Development Policy Review.
http://www.odi.org.uk/publications/dpr/
Copestake, James, Martin Greeley, Sue Johnson, Naila Kabeer and Anton Simanowitz (2005): Money with a Mission Volume 1: Microfinance and Poverty Reduction. Warwickshire, UK: ITDG Publishing.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1853396141
Dunn, Elizabeth (2002): “Research Strategy for the AIMS Core Impact Assessments.” Washington, D.C.: AIMS.
http://www.microlinks.org/ev_en.php?ID=7213_201&ID2=DO_TOPIC
Dunn, Elizabeth, and J.Gordon Arbuckle Jr. (2001): “The Impacts of Microcredit: A Case Study from Peru.” Washington, D.C.: AIMS.
http://www.microlinks.org/ev_en.php?ID=7216_201&ID2=DO_TOPIC
EDA Rural Systems (2004): “The Maturing of Indian Microfinance.” New Delhi.
http://www.edarural.com/
Edgcomb, Elaine, and Carter Garber (1998): “Practitioner-Led Impact Assessment: A Test in Honduras.” Washington, D.C.: AIMS.
http://www.microlinks.org/ev_en.php?ID=7230_201&ID2=DO_TOPIC
Goetz, Anne Marie, and Rina Sen Gupta (1996): “Who Takes the Credit? Gender, Power, and Control Over Loan Use in Loan Programs in Rural Bangladesh.” World Development 24(1): 45-63.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0305-750X(95)00124-U
Hashemi, Syed (2001): “CGAP Focus Note 21: Linking Microfinance and Safety Net Programs to Include the Poorest: The Case of IGVGD in Bangladesh.” Washington, D.C.: Consultative Group to Assist the Poor.
http://www.cgap.org/docs/FocusNote_21.pdf
Hashemi, Syed, Sidney R. Schuler, S., and Ann P. Riley (1996): “Rural Credit Programs and Women's Empowerment in Bangladesh.” World Development 24(4): 635-653.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0305-750X(95)00159-A
Hossain, Mahabub (1988): “Credit for the Alleviation of Rural Poverty: The Grameen Bank in Bangladesh.” Washington, D.C.: IFPRI, Research Report No. 65.
http://www.ifpri.org/pubs/pubs.htm#rreport
Hossain, Mahabub and Catalina P. Diaz (1997): “Reaching the Poor with Effective Microcredit: Evaluation of a Grameen Bank Replication in the Philippines.” Los Bańos, Philippines: International Rice Research Institute.
http://ciat-library.ciat.cgiar.org/paper_pobreza/024.pdf
Husain, A. M. Muazzam, ed. (1998): “Poverty Alleviation and Empowerment: The Second Impact Assessment Study of BRAC’s Rural Development Programme.” Dhaka, Bangladesh: BRAC.
http://www.bracresearch.org/highlights/ias_2.pdf
Karlan, Dean (2001): “Microfinance Impact Assessments: The Perils of Using New Members as a Control Group.” Journal of Microfinance 3(2): 76-85.
http://marriottschool.byu.edu/microfinance/articles/article48.pdf
Khandker, Shahidur (1998): Fighting Poverty with Microcredit. Dhaka, Bangladesh: University Press Limited.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0195211219
Khandker, Shahidur (2005): “Microfinance and Poverty: Evidence Using Panel Data from Bangladesh.” Forthcoming, World Bank Economic Review.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/wber/lhi008
Littlefield, Elizabeth, Jonathan Morduch, and Syed Hashemi (2003): “CGAP Focus Note 24: Is Microfinance an Effective Strategy to Reach the Millennium Development Goals?” Washington, D.C.: Consultative Group to Assist the Poor.
http://www.cgap.org/docs/FocusNote_24.pdf
Manroth, Astrid (2001): “How Effective is Microfinance in CEEC and the NIS? A Discussion of Impact Analysis to Date.” Washington, D.C.: AIMS.
http://www.microlinks.org/ev_en.php?ID=7201_201&ID2=DO_TOPIC
MkNelly, Barbara and Christopher Dunford (1998): “Impact of Credit with Education on Mothers and Their Young Children’s Nutrition: Lower Pra Rural Bank Credit with Education Program in Ghana.” Davis, California: Freedom from Hunger.
http://www.ffhtechnical.org/publications/pdfs/CwE_R4_GhanaImpact.pdf
MkNelly, Barbara and Christopher Dunford (1999): “Impact of Credit with Education on Mothers and Their Young Children’s Nutrition: CRECER Credit with Education Program in Bolivia.” Davis, California: Freedom from Hunger.
http://www.ffhtechnical.org/publications/pdfs/CwE_R5_BoliviaImpact_English.pdf
MkNelly, Barbara, and Karen Lippold (1998): “Practitioner-Led Impact Assessment: A Test in Mali.” Washington, D.C.: AIMS
http://www.microlinks.org/ev_en.php?ID=7231_201&ID2=DO_TOPIC
Morduch, Jonathan (1998): “Does Microfinance Really Help the Poor? New Evidence from Flagship Programs in Bangladesh.” Princeton University working paper.
http://www.wws.princeton.edu/~rpds/downloads/morduch_microfinance_poor.pdf
Morduch, Jonathan and Barbara Haley (2001): “Analysis of the Effects of Microfinance on Poverty Reduction.” NYU working paper.
http://www.nyu.edu/wagner/public_html/cgi-bin/workingPapers/wp1014.pdf
Mustafa, Shams et al. (1996): “Beacon of Hope an impact assessment study of BRAC’s Rural Development Programme.” Dhaka, Bangladesh: BRAC
http://www.bracresearch.org/highlights/ias_1.pdf
Pitt, Mark (1999): “Reply to Jonathan Morduch's "Does Microfinance Really Help the Poor? New Evidence from Flagship Programs in Bangladesh.” Brown University working paper.
http://www.pstc.brown.edu/~mp/reply.pdf
Pitt, Mark and Shahidur Khandker (1998): “The Impact of Group-Based Credit Programs on Poor Households in Bangladesh: Does the Gender of Participants Matter?” Journal of Political Economy 106(5): 958-996.
http://www.pstc.brown.edu/~mp/jour14.pdf
Pitt, Mark, Shahidur Khandker, Omar Haider Chowdhury, and Daniel Millimet (2003): “Credit Programs for the Poor and the Health Status of Children in Rural Bangladesh.” International Economic Review 44(1): 87-118.
http://www.pstc.brown.edu/~mp/health.pdf
Steele, Fiona, Sajeda Amin, and Ruchira T. Naved (1998): “The Impact of an Integrated Microcredit Program on Women’s Empowerment and Fertility Behavior in Rural Bangladesh.” Population Council.
https://www.popcouncil.org/pdfs/wp/115.pdf
Todd, Helen (2000): “Poverty Reduced Through Microfinance: The Impact of ASHI in the Philippines .” Washington, D.C.: AIMS.
http://www.microlinks.org/ev_en.php?ID=7212_201&ID2=DO_TOPIC
Tsilikounas, Caroline (2000): “ICMC and Project Enterprise Bosnia and Herzegovina.” Washington, D.C.: AIMS.
http://www.microlinks.org/ev_en.php?ID=7202_201&ID2=DO_TOPIC
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