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  1. Targeting, beliefs in own potential and subsequent investments: Theory and evidence from a framed field experiment
  2. Effects of Interventions to Improve Access to Financial Services for Micro, Small, and Medium‐Sized Enterprises in Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries: An Evidence and Gap Map
  3. The impact of bundling index insurance with credit and input vouchers: Experimental evidence from Ethiopia
  4. Effects of Cash-Transfer Programs New Evidence From Uganda
  5. Is Microcredit Effective? It Depends on the Context: New Results from a Study in Bolivia
  6. Author Correction: Promoting new crop cultivars in low-income countries requires a transdisciplinary approach
  7. Promoting new crop cultivars in low-income countries requires a transdisciplinary approach
  8. How did COVID affect savings and wealth? An empirical study in South Africa
  9. Effectiveness of community-based diabetes and hypertension prevention and management programmes in Indonesia and Viet Nam: a quasi-experimental study
  10. Do online pension dashboards affect pension knowledge and expectations? Evidence from a randomized survey experiment
  11. Ambiguity attitudes and demand for weather index insurance with and without a credit bundle: experimental evidence from Kenya
  12. Culturally adapted training for community volunteers to improve their knowledge, attitude and practice regarding non-communicable diseases in Vietnam
  13. Remittances and International Trade in Africa
  14. The Origins of Optimism: A Lab-in-the-Field Experiment among Microfinance Clients in Bolivia
  15. PROTOCOL: Effects of interventions to improve access to financial services for micro‐, small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises in low‐ and middle‐income countries: An evidence and gap map
  16. The implementation of community-based programs in Vietnam is promising in promoting health
  17. Religion, social desirability bias and financial inclusion: Evidence from a list experiment on Islamic (micro-)finance
  18. Uptake, use, and impact of Islamic savings: Evidence from a field experiment in Pakistan
  19. Knowledge on hypertension in Myanmar: levels and groups at risk
  20. Does microfinance cause banking sector development and economic growth? An application to Mongolia
  21. Fintech and Financial Inclusion in Developing Countries
  22. The role of social capital in adoption of risky versus less risky subsidized input supplies: An empirical study of cocoa farmers in Ghana
  23. Aspirational hope, dairy farming practices, and milk production: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial in Bolivia
  24. Why agricultural insurance may slow down agricultural development
  25. Short- and Medium-term Impacts of Employability Training: Evidence from a Randomised Field Experiment in Rwanda
  26. Trapped by the Lack of Control Over Savings: Evidence From Pakistan
  27. A Guideline for Contextual Adaptation of Community-Based Health Interventions
  28. Do smallholder farmers prefer commitment or flexibility in pension savings accounts? A randomised experiment of cocoa farmers in Ghana
  29. Missed opportunities in hypertension risk factors screening in Indonesia: a mixed-methods evaluation of integrated health post (POSBINDU) implementation
  30. Credit-linked insurance bundles in Zambia: evidence from the aftermath of a shock
  31. Core health-components, contextual factors and program elements of community-based interventions in Southeast Asia – a realist synthesis regarding hypertension and diabetes
  32. Does financial liberalization accentuate financial instability?
  33. The coexistence of formal and informal finance: new evidence from the use of trade finance by farmers in Chile
  34. Provisioning over the business cycle: Some insights from the microfinance industry
  35. Liquidity defaults and progressive lending in microfinance: A lab‐in‐the field experiment in Bolivia
  36. The Plus in Credit-Plus-Technical Assistance: Evidence from a Rural Microcredit Programme in Bolivia
  37. Microfinance Services and Women’s Empowerment
  38. Introduction to contemporary issues in development finance
  39. Microfinance and development
  40. Remittances and development
  41. Does bundling crop insurance with certified seeds crowd-in investments? Experimental evidence from Kenya
  42. Risk and ambiguity aversion behavior in index-based insurance uptake decisions: Experimental evidence from Ethiopia
  43. The double bottom line of microfinance: A global comparison between conventional and Islamic microfinance
  44. Empowerment and intimate partner violence: Domestic abuse when household income is uncertain
  45. Effects of Index Insurance on Demand and Supply of Credit: Evidence from Ethiopia
  46. Does microcredit increase aspirational hope? Evidence from a group lending scheme in Sierra Leone
  47. Randomized interventions and “real” treatment effects: A cautionary tale and an example
  48. Political connections and household access to bank loans: evidence from China
  49. Transforming agribusiness in developing countries: SDGs and the role of FinTech
  50. A relational perspective on women’s empowerment: Intimate partner violence and empowerment among women entrepreneurs in Vietnam
  51. Liquidity constraints, informal institutions, and the adoption of weather insurance: A randomized controlled Trial in Ethiopia
  52. Impacts of the Gender and Entrepreneurship Together Ahead (GET Ahead) training on empowerment of female microfinance borrowers in Northern Vietnam
  53. Women's empowerment and domestic abuse: Experimental evidence from Vietnam
  54. Microfinance-plus: a review and avenues for research
  55. The impact of husbands' involvement in goal‐setting training on women's empowerment: First evidence from an intervention among female microfinance borrowers in Sri Lanka
  56. The impact of a gender and business training on income hiding: An experimental study in Vietnam
  57. Financial development and the efficiency of microfinance institutions
  58. Do microfinance institutions benefit from integrating financial and nonfinancial services?
  59. A Three-Dimensional Model of Women’s Empowerment: Implications in the Field of Microfinance and Future Directions
  60. Does Aid Work? New Evidence from Recent Empirical Studies
  61. Does Microfinance Make Households More Resilient to Shocks? Evidence From the Cyclone Phailin in India
  62. Liquidity Constraints and Willingness to Pay for Solar Lamps and Water Filters in Jakarta
  63. The Impact of Social and Financial Education on Savings Attitudes and Behavior Among Primary School Children in Uganda
  64. Trade credit use and competition in the value chain
  65. Impact of a business and gender training in Vietnam
  66. Gender training and female empowerment: Experimental evidence from Vietnam
  67. Adoption and impact of index-insurance and credit for smallholder farmers in developing countries
  68. Community conversations as a strategy to change harmful traditional practices against women
  69. Capital account liberalization and income inequality
  70. Aid and microfinance
  71. Measuring the impact of an ongoing microcredit project: evidence from a study in Ghana
  72. Do Savings and Credit Institutions Reduce Vulnerability? New Evidence From Mexico
  73. Loan Officers’ Gender and Microfinance Repayment Rates
  74. Financial Literacy and Financial Behaviour: Experimental Evidence from Rural Rwanda
  75. Cash or In-kind Transfers? Evidence from a Randomised Controlled Trial in Delhi, India
  76. The determinants of trade credit use: the case of the Tanzanian rice market
  77. The impact of gender and business training for female microfinance clients in Vietnam
  78. Financial Liberalization and Capital Flight*
  79. Asymmetric group loans, non-assortative matching and adverse selection
  80. Slavery, Statehood, and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
  81. What Can We Learn from Impact Evaluations?
  82. Financial liberalization and economic growth: A meta-analysis
  83. Institutions and Bank Performance: A Stochastic Frontier Analysis*
  84. Group lending with correlated project outcomes
  85. Ownership and technical efficiency of microfinance institutions: Empirical evidence from Latin America
  86. Violent Conflict and Behavior: A Field Experiment in Burundi
  87. The Impact of Trade Credit on Customer Switching Behaviour: Evidence from the Tanzanian Rice Market
  88. Do Powerful CEOs Determine Microfinance Performance?
  89. The Credit Constraints of Market-Oriented Farmers in Chile
  90. The impact of microcredit on self‐employment profits in Vietnam
  91. The impact of work and non-work migration on household welfare, poverty and inequality
  92. Microfinance: Its Impact, Outreach, and Sustainability
  93. Outreach and Efficiency of Microfinance Institutions
  94. On the signalling property of debt maturity: empirical evidence from a private bank in Vietnam
  95. International diversification and Microfinance
  96. The financial crisis and microfinance
  97. Stock-market efficiency in thin-trading markets: the case of the Vietnamese stock market
  98. Does group affiliation increase firm value for diversified groups?
  99. Does Group Affiliation Improve Firm Performance? The Case of Chinese State-Owned Firms
  100. Group lending and the role of the group leader
  101. A practical approach to validating a PD model
  102. Household Borrowing in Vietnam
  103. Banking in transition economies: does foreign ownership enhance profitability?
  104. Bank efficiency and foreign ownership: Do good institutions matter?
  105. State capture, income and institutional quality
  106. Value performance of European bank acquisitions
  107. Legal Restrictions and Investment Growth
  108. Does foreign ownership foster bank performance?
  109. Lending policies of informal, formal and semiformal lenders
  110. The Empirics of Microfinance: What Do we know?
  111. Controversies over the impact of development aid: it works; it doesn't; it can, but that depends …
  112. Financial liberalization in Vietnam: impact on loans from informal, formal, and semi-formal providers
  113. Financial Reforms in Eastern Europe
  114. On signalling and debt maturity choice
  115. Foreign Direct Investment: Flows, Volatility, and the Impact on Growth*
  116. Does foreign bank entry really stimulate gross domestic investment?
  117. Does the Group Leader Matter? The Impact of Monitoring Activities and Social Ties of Group Leaders on the Repayment Performance of Group-based Lending in Eritrea
  118. The impact of privatization on firm performance in a transition economy
  119. The Inverted-U hypothesis for the effect of uncertainty on investment: Evidence from UK firms
  120. Joint Liability Lending and the Peer Selection Effect
  121. Uncertainty and Growth of the Firm
  122. Peer Monitoring, Social Ties and Moral Hazard in Group Lending Programs: Evidence from Eritrea
  123. Foreign Bank Presence, Domestic Bank Performance and Financial Development
  124. Foreign Banks and Economic Transition
  125. Growth, financial development, societal norms and legal institutions*
  126. The short-term effects of foreign bank entry on domestic bank behaviour: Does economic development matter?
  127. Business groups, financing constraints and investment: the case of India
  128. Foreign direct investment, financial development and economic growth
  129. Infant and child mortality in developing countries: Analysing the data for Robust determinants
  130. The Institutional Economics of Foreign Aid
  131. Uncertainty and Financing Constraints
  132. Monetary transmission and bank competition in the EMU
  133. Is the uncertainty-investment link non-linear? Empirical evidence for developed economies
  134. The Option to Wait to Invest and Equilibrium Credit Rationing
  135. Dutch inventory investment: are capital market imperfections relevant?
  136. Are There Negative Returns to Aid?
  137. Changing the Conditions for Development Aid: A New Paradigm?
  138. Capital flight and the uncertainty of government policies
  139. Demand uncertainty and the capital–labour ratio in Poland
  140. Macroeconomic effects of a currency devaluation in Egypt
  141. Asymmetric information, option to wait to invest and the optimal level of investment
  142. Foreign Transfers and Tropical Deforestation: What Terms of Conditionality?
  143. Financial system development in transition economies
  144. Aid allocation, poverty reduction and theAssessing Aid report
  145. Aid instability as a measure of uncertainty and the positive impact of aid on growth
  146. Capital flight and political risk
  147. Assessing Aid: A Manifesto for Aid in the 21st Century?
  148. Does the revival of international private capital flows mean the end of aid?: An analysis of developing countries' access to private capital
  149. The effect of financial liberalization on capital flight in African economies
  150. Banking reform and the financing of firm investment: An empirical analysis of the Chilean experience, 1983–92
  151. The allocative efficiency of the formal versus the informal financial sector
  152. Allocative efficiency and financial deregulation
  153. DECOMPARTMENTALIZATION: THE DISMANTLING OF DUTCH DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION?
  154. Foreign exchange constraints and developing countries
  155. Recipient government behavior and the effectiveness of development aid
  156. Trade capital and the transition in Central Europe
  157. The magnitude and determinants of capital flight: The case for six sub-Saharan African countries
  158. A model of rural-urban conflict in developing countries
  159. The determinants of developing countries’ access to the international capital market
  160. Official finance requirements in the 1990s
  161. International policy coordination and European wage rigidity