Shahidur R. Khandker
Microfinance supports mainly informal activities that often have a low return and low market demand. It may therefore be hypothesized that the aggregate poverty impact of microfinance is modest or even nonexistent. If true, the poverty impact of microfinance observed at the participant level represe...
Stanislav Kolenikov, Gustavo Ángeles
The last several years have seen a growth in the number of publications in economics that use principal component analysis (PCA) in the area of welfare studies. This paper explores the ways discrete data can be incorporated into PCA. The effects of discreteness of the observed variables on the PCA a...
Atif Jahanger, Muhammad Usman, Muntasir Murshed, Haider Mahmood et al.
Martin Ravallion
Abstract A model of spatial price differentials for a tradable good is proposed which avoids the inferential dangers of received methods using static price correlations. The proposed method also extracts more information on the causes of price differentials from the same data. The method is illustra...
Md Abdullah Omar, Kazuo Inaba
Abstract Financial inclusion is a key element of social inclusion, particularly useful in combating poverty and income inequality by opening blocked advancement opportunities for disadvantaged segments of the population. This study intends to investigate the impact of financial inclusion on reducing...
M. C. Shewry, Henry P. Wynn
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Erica Field, Attila Ambrus
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Ruhul Salim, Shuddhasattwa Rafiq
Hal R. Varian
Abstract. I investigate the multiple agency problem when agents can monitor the per-formance of other agents. A particularly interesting incentive scheme of this sort has been used by the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh and I use this example to investigate some general questions involving group incentiv...
Syed Abul Basher, Perry Sadorsky
Mark M. Pitt, Shahidur R. Khandker, Jennifer Cartwright
This article examines the effects of men’s and women’s participation in micro credit programs on various indicators of women’s empowerment using data from a special survey carried out in rural Bangladesh. These credit programs are well suited to studying how gender‐specific resources alter intrahous...
Esha Sraboni, Hazel Malapit, Agnes Quisumbing, Akhter Ahmed
Using nationally representative survey data from Bangladesh, we examine the relationship between women’s empowerment in agriculture and two measures of household food security: per adult equivalent calorie availability and dietary diversity. We use the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index to ass...
Mahmood Ahmad, Ping Jiang, Muntasir Murshed, Khurram Shehzad et al.
Tobias Adrian, Joshua V. Rosenberg
ABSTRACT We explore the cross‐sectional pricing of volatility risk by decomposing equity market volatility into short‐ and long‐run components. Our finding that prices of risk are negative and significant for both volatility components implies that investors pay for insurance against increases in vo...
Manohar Sharma, Manfred Zeller