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May 2012 (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development)
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Group lending or individual lending? Evidence from Mongolia
Type: External publications
Authors: Britta Augsburg, Orazio Attanasio, Ralph de Haas, Heike Harmgart and Emla Fitzsimons
Published in: Impact brief 01

Microfinance institutions across the world are moving from group lending to individual lending. Yet there is not much rigorous evidence on how these types of microcredit affect borrowers, and this makes it difficult to either substantiate or challenge such a strategic move. This EBRD Impact Brief presents some such evidence from a recent randomised field experiment in Mongolia.

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