Savings and Development, Vol. 45 (2021), pp. 1-17 (17 pages) The study examined the impact of Covid-19 pandemic on households’ income and consumption – two economic measures used in measuring poverty.

Research commissioned by the Cambodia Microfinance Association (CMA) and carried out by the M-CRIL ratings agency signals a retreat from the claim that there is a verifiable connection between ...

The Journal of Developing Areas, Vol. 50, No. 3 (Summer 2016), pp. 305-318 (14 pages) Although the microfinance movement has developed rapidly in Bangladesh over the last three decades, there has been ...

Perhaps the single most popular idea in foreign aid over the past few decades has been microcredit for the world’s poor. Small loans to poor people, it was suggested, would empower them to become ...

DHAKA, Jan 9, 2026 (BSS) - The Credit and Development Forum (CDF) has rejected concerns that the proposed Microcredit Bank Ordinance would commercialize microfinance, asserting that the initiative is ...

The Microcredit Bank Ordinance 2025, drafted to establish a specialised microcredit bank to expand access to capital for small and emerging entrepreneurs under a social business framework, could ...

, Jan. 9 -- The Credit and Development Forum (CDF), a national association and network of microfinance institutions, has said the proposed Microcredit Bank will be a social business, strictly ...

New research from Cambodia challenges the microfinance industry’s assertions that its loans help farmers to resist the impacts of climate change. In fact, the research argues, microfinance undermines ...

When the rich suffer, so do the poor. Or so goes the trickle-down theory. It turns out, though, that the spreading of global financial pain is far from simple. The microfinance industry, for instance, ...

Simple changes to contract design could be a significant way of enhancing the effectiveness of microcredit, suggests a new review. After much initial hype, the effectiveness of microfinance or ...