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