Can microfinance bridge the divide between the formal financial institutions and the poor?

This study hopes to contribute to designing better responses to women microentrepreneurs' demand by helping to create more efficient and viable institutions providing them with useful financial services into the twenty-first century and beyond.

How do subsidies affect lending in rural credit markets?

Developing the rural financial system in Vietnam for financial sustainability and poverty outreach

Does availability of credit affect investment in irrigation?

Higher rates of interest are needed to ensure a signinficant impact on poverty alleviation

Are public-private partnerships the solution for risk mitigation problems?

Can financial services for the poor help them overcome fundamental food and income insecurities?

Examines divergent trends in people's savings habits around the world

Can poor save?