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Is microcredit a blessing for the poor? A meta-analysis examining development outcomes and contextual considerations

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  1. Sophie Bacq & Frank Janssen & Anne-Sophie Sabbatucci & Amélie Wuillaume, 2026. "The dark side of doing good: a guiding framework for advancing research on the negative outcomes of social entrepreneurship," Small Business Economics, Springer, vol. 66(2), pages 647-674, February.
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  3. Guo‐Hua Cao & Jing Zhang, 2022. "The entrepreneurial ecosystem of inclusive finance and entrepreneurship: A theoretical and empirical test in China," International Journal of Finance & Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 27(1), pages 1547-1568, January.
  4. Bhuiyan, Muhammad Faress & Ivlevs, Artjoms, 2019. "Micro-entrepreneurship and subjective well-being: Evidence from rural Bangladesh," Journal of Business Venturing, Elsevier, vol. 34(4), pages 625-645.
  5. N’Guessan, Marie Noëlle & Hartarska, Valentina, 2021. "Funding for BOP in Emerging Markets: Organizational Forms and Capital Structures of Microfinance Institutions," Research in International Business and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 58(C).
  6. Maren Duvendack & Philip Mader, 2020. "Impact Of Financial Inclusion In Low‐ And Middle‐Income Countries: A Systematic Review Of Reviews," Journal of Economic Surveys, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 34(3), pages 594-629, July.
  7. Patrick Reichert, 2018. "A meta-analysis examining the nature of trade-offs in microfinance," Oxford Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 46(3), pages 430-452, July.
  8. Helena Susana Amaral Geraldes & Ana Paula Matias Gama & Mário Augusto, 2022. "Reaching Financial Inclusion: Necessary and Sufficient Conditions," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 162(2), pages 599-617, July.
  9. Busch, Christian & Barkema, Harry, 2022. "Align or perish: social enterprise network orchestration in Sub-Saharan Africa," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 115350, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
  10. DaPeng Xu & Hong Hong & Lingfei Deng & Xiaoquan (Michael) Zhang, 2026. "Crowdfunding Success Factors: A Meta-Analytic Investigation," Information Systems Research, INFORMS, vol. 37(1), pages 195-217, March.
  11. Ghulam Hussain, A.K.M. & Nargis, Nigar & Ashiquzzaman, S.M. & Khalil, Fahad, 2019. "The employment impact of microcredit program participation in Bangladesh: Evidence from a longitudinal household survey," World Development Perspectives, Elsevier, vol. 13(C), pages 34-49.
  12. Yan Yan & Jiancheng Guan, 2019. "Entrepreneurial ecosystem, entrepreneurial rate and innovation: the moderating role of internet attention," International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, Springer, vol. 15(2), pages 625-650, June.
  13. Bacq, Sophie & Hertel, Christina & Lumpkin, G.T., 2022. "Communities at the nexus of entrepreneurship and societal impact: A cross-disciplinary literature review," Journal of Business Venturing, Elsevier, vol. 37(5).
  14. Independent Evaluation Group, 2023. "Financial Inclusion," World Bank Publications - Books, The World Bank Group, number 40282.
  15. Doering, Laura & Wry, Tyler, 2022. "The challenges of supporting necessity entrepreneurs: Understanding loan officer exit in microfinance," Journal of Business Venturing, Elsevier, vol. 37(2).
  16. Sutter, Christopher & Bruton, Garry D. & Chen, Juanyi, 2019. "Entrepreneurship as a solution to extreme poverty: A review and future research directions," Journal of Business Venturing, Elsevier, vol. 34(1), pages 197-214.
  17. Swati M. Dhawan & Kim Wilson & Hans-Martin Zademach, 2022. "Formal Micro-Credit for Refugees: New Evidence and Thoughts on an Elusive Path to Self-Reliance," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(17), pages 1-21, August.
  18. Muñoz, Pablo & Kimmitt, Jonathan, 2018. "Entrepreneurship and the rest: The missing debate," Journal of Business Venturing Insights, Elsevier, vol. 9(C), pages 100-106.
  19. Delichte, Jody & Powell, E. Erin & Hamann, Ralph & Baker, Ted, 2024. "To profit or not to profit: Founder identity at the intersection of religion and entrepreneurship," Journal of Business Venturing, Elsevier, vol. 39(4).
  20. Wang, Yi & Li, Biao & Niu, Xiaoyan & Li, Baoqi, 2024. "Return-to-hometown entrepreneurship and employment of low-income households: Evidence from national returned entrepreneurial enterprise data of China," Economic Analysis and Policy, Elsevier, vol. 84(C), pages 1714-1729.
  21. Rafael Goldszmidt & Patrick Behr & Cesar Zucco & Anna-Katharina Lenz & Lauro Gonzalez & Martin Valdivia, 2022. "Microcredit Impacts: Evidence from a Large-Scale Observational Study in Brazil," The European Journal of Development Research, Palgrave Macmillan;European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI), vol. 34(4), pages 1940-1966, August.
  22. Su, Yiyi & Song, Jialin & Lu, Ying & Fan, Di & Yang, Miles, 2023. "Economic poverty, common prosperity, and underdog entrepreneurship," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 165(C).
  23. Drori, Israel & Manos, Ronny & Santacreu-Vasut, Estefania & Shenkar, Oded & Shoham, Amir, 2018. "Language and market inclusivity for women entrepreneurship: the case of microfinance," Journal of Business Venturing, Elsevier, vol. 33(4), pages 395-415.
  24. Mao, Hui & Fu, Yong, 2024. "Risk preference and relative poverty: An analysis based on the data of China Family Panel Studies," Economic Analysis and Policy, Elsevier, vol. 82(C), pages 220-232.
  25. Kimmitt, Jonathan, 2025. "The process of freedom in entrepreneurship and poverty," Journal of Business Venturing Insights, Elsevier, vol. 24(C).
  26. Tipaldi, Riccardo & Gallucci, Carmen & Liñares-Zegarra, José M., 2026. "Herding behaviour in equity crowdfunding and P2P lending markets: A systematic meta-analysis," International Review of Financial Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 111(C).
  27. João Paulo Coelho Ribeiro & Fábio Duarte & Ana Paula Matias Gama, 2022. "Does microfinance foster the development of its clients? A bibliometric analysis and systematic literature review," Financial Innovation, Springer;Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, vol. 8(1), pages 1-35, December.
  28. Chauhan, Tarana, 2025. "Accounting for Empowerment? Examining Women's Financial Inclusion in India," GLO Discussion Paper Series 1689, Global Labor Organization (GLO).
  29. Shahriar, Abu Zafar M. & Chase, Sarah R. & Shepherd, Dean, 2025. "Financial inclusion and low-income women's new venture initiation: A Field experiment," Journal of Business Venturing, Elsevier, vol. 40(5).
  30. Swab, R. Gabrielle & Patel, Pankaj C., 2024. "What is in a [poverty] label? The effect of regional poverty labeling in the Appalachian region of the U.S. and self-employment," Journal of Business Venturing Insights, Elsevier, vol. 21(C).
  31. Mohamed, Toka S. & Elgammal, Mohammed M., 2023. "Credit risk in Islamic microfinance institutions: The role of women, groups, and rural borrowers," Emerging Markets Review, Elsevier, vol. 54(C).
  32. Kimmitt, Jonathan & Muñoz, Pablo & Newbery, Robert, 2020. "Poverty and the varieties of entrepreneurship in the pursuit of prosperity," Journal of Business Venturing, Elsevier, vol. 35(4).
  33. Mathilde Bauwin & Walid Jbili, 2017. "Loyalty, trust, and glass ceiling: The gender effect on microcredit renewal," WIDER Working Paper Series 101, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
  34. Krlev, Gorgi, 2026. "Social entrepreneurship mechanisms for systems change: A structuration approach," Journal of Business Venturing, Elsevier, vol. 41(2).
  35. Lucas Lopes Ferreira de Souza & Francesca Bassi & Ana Augusta Ferreira de Freitas, 2021. "Longitudinal analysis of microfinance borrowers in Brazil: A dynamic market segmentation," Journal of International Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 33(6), pages 1063-1083, August.
  36. Ke Zhao & Hongwei Wang & Xicheng Yin, 2023. "How women entrepreneurs influence reward-based crowdfunding performance: The mediating role of social and economic value orientation," International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, Springer, vol. 19(4), pages 1771-1802, December.
  37. Arp, Frithjof & Ardisa, Alvin & Ardisa, Alviani, 2017. "Microfinance for poverty alleviation: Do transnational initiatives overlook fundamental questions of competition and intermediation?," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 24(3), pages 103-117.
  38. Namayengo., Faith & van Ophem, Johan A.C. & Antonides, Gerrit, 2016. "Women And Microcredit In Rural Agrarian Households Of Uganda: Match Or Mismatch Between Lender And Borrower?," APSTRACT: Applied Studies in Agribusiness and Commerce, AGRIMBA, vol. 10(2-3), pages 1-12, October.
  39. Busch, Christian & Barkema, Harry, 2022. "Align or perish: Social enterprise network orchestration in Sub-Saharan Africa," Journal of Business Venturing, Elsevier, vol. 37(2).
  40. Moss, Todd W. & Renko, Maija & Block, Emily & Meyskens, Moriah, 2018. "Funding the story of hybrid ventures: Crowdfunder lending preferences and linguistic hybridity," Journal of Business Venturing, Elsevier, vol. 33(5), pages 643-659.
  41. Shahriar, Abu Zafar M. & Lee, Grace Hooi Yean & Zahid Iqbal, S.M., 2026. "Microcredit and entrepreneurship: Bridging intentions and actions," Journal of Business Venturing Insights, Elsevier, vol. 25(C).
  42. Michael Frese, 2024. "Learning from African entrepreneurship—on the psychological function of entrepreneurial preparedness," Small Business Economics, Springer, vol. 63(4), pages 1365-1380, December.
  43. Castellanza, Luca, 2019. "Discipline, abjection, and poverty alleviation through entrepreneurship: a grounded-theoretical inquiry," SocArXiv hmj7k, Center for Open Science.
  44. Stöhr, Christian, 2022. "The Effect of Micro-Entrepreneurship on Migration Plans of Young Adults in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa and the Mediating Role of Subjective and Economic Well-Being," Junior Management Science (JUMS), Junior Management Science e. V., vol. 7(5), pages 1326-1360.
  45. Granados, Maria L. & Rosli, Ainurul & Gotsi, Manto, 2022. "Staying poor: Unpacking the process of barefoot institutional entrepreneurship failure," Journal of Business Venturing, Elsevier, vol. 37(3).
  46. Gamble, Edward N., 2018. "‘Bang for buck’ in microfinance: Wellbeing mentorship or business education?," Journal of Business Venturing Insights, Elsevier, vol. 9(C), pages 137-144.
  47. Mathilde Bauwin & Walid Jbili, 2017. "Loyalty, trust, and glass ceiling: The gender effect on microcredit renewal," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2017-101, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
  48. Wu Zhao & Zhiye Liang & Binrong Li, 2022. "Realizing a Rural Sustainable Development through a Digital Village Construction: Experiences from China," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(21), pages 1-26, October.
  49. Miao, Chao & Gast, Johanna & Laouiti, Rahma & Nakara, Walid, 2022. "Institutional factors, religiosity, and entrepreneurial activity: A quantitative examination across 85 countries," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 149(C).
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