Mark M. Pitt, Shahidur R. Khandker
This paper estimates the impact of participation, by gender, in the Grameen Bank and two other group‐based micro credit programs in Bangladesh on labor supply, schooling, household expenditure, and assets. The empirical method uses a quasi‐experimental survey design to correct for the bias from unob...
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...
Shahidur R. Khandker
Providing microcredit to the poor has become an important antipoverty scheme in many countries. Microcredit helps the poor become self-employed and thus generates income and reduces poverty. In Bangladesh, these programs reach about 5 million poor households. This books attempts to find out whether ...
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...
Douglas F. Barnes, Shahidur R. Khandker, Hussain A. Samad
Shahidur R. Khandker, Zaid Bakht, Gayatri Koolwal
A rationale for public investment in rural roads is that households can better exploit agricultural and nonagricultural opportunities to employ labor and capital more efficiently. Significant knowledge gaps persist, however, as to how opportunities provided by roads actually filter back into househo...
Mark M. Pitt, Shahidur R. Khandker
Group-based lending programs for the poor have become a focus of attention in the development community over the last several years. To date, there has been no comprehensive investigation of their impact on household behavior that has been sufficiently attentive to issues of endogeneity and self-sel...
Shahidur R. Khandker
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Mark M. Pitt, Shahidur R. Khandker, Omar Haider Chowdhury, Daniel L. Millimet
The impact of participation in group‐based credit programs, by gender of participant, on the health status of children by gender in rural Bangladesh is investigated. These credit programs are well suited to studies of how gender‐specific resources alter intra‐household allocations because they induc...
Jonathan Haughton, Shahidur R. Khandker
The handbook on poverty and inequality provides tools to measure, describe, monitor, evaluate, and analyze poverty. It provides background materials for designing poverty reduction strategies. This book is intended for researchers and policy analysts involved in poverty research and policy making. T...
Shahidur R. Khandker, Hussain A. Samad, Zahed Hossain Khan
Micro‐credit programmes, having made their mark in providing credit and other development services to the poor in a non‐traditional way, are able to make significant changes in a rural economy. This article attempts to quantify the village‐level impacts of the three most important micro‐credit progr...
Shahidur R. Khandker, Douglas F. Barnes, Hussain A. Samad
Lack of access to electricity has been considered a major impediment to the growth and development of rural economies. Thus, the provision of electricity and other forms of modern energy has been a priority for many development organizations, including the World Bank. However, few impact studies of ...
Mark M. Pin, Shahidur R. Khandker, Signe‐Mary McKernan, Muhammad Abdul Latif
Group-based lending programs for the poor have drawn much attention recently. As many of these programs target women, an important research question is whether program participation significantly changes reproductive behavior and whether the gender of the participant matters. Using survey data from ...
Shahidur R. Khandker
Douglas F. Barnes, Shahidur R. Khandker, Hussain A. Samad
Lack of access to electricity is one of the major impediments to growth and development of the rural economies in developing countries. That is why access to modern energy, in particular to electricity, has been one of the priority themes of the World Bank and other development organizations. Using ...