Microcredit is perceived as an effective tool to empower women, especially those who are
deprived of accessing financial services. However, the literature has arrived with …

High-quality development has become a new requirement for China's social and economic
development. As an important industry related to the national economy and people's …

Microcredit financing is considered a crucial vehicle to flourish the socioeconomic conditions
of women and women empowerment, especially among those who are from low-income …

Extant literature has extensively explored microcredit's impacts, confirming its essential role
in poverty alleviation. However, most studies focus on poverty measures that exclusively …

This study investigates the effect of demographic factors on formal and informal borrowing
households in rural Fujian Province. The study tests whether credit constraint affects rural …

This article is the first to investigate both community and household determinants of poverty
among ethnic minorities in the Northwest region of Vietnam. Results of a fractional logit and …

It is widely accepted that rural microcredit has the potential to contribute to poverty reduction
in developing countries. This paper examines the factors that affect rural residents' decisions …

We conduct a meta-analysis to review 25 empirical studies with a total of 595 estimates of
the impact of microcredit and access to credit on poverty and microenterprises. We formulate …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to identify factors affecting formal credit constraint
status of rural farm households in Vietnam's North Central Coast (NCC) region …

Over the last 35 years, microfinance has been generally regarded as an effective policy tool
in the fight against poverty. Yet, the question of whether access to credit leads to poverty …