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عنوان :

Returns to Interest-free Microcredit: evidence from a Randomised Experiment in Pakistan

کلیدواژه :

Microfinance/fa?page=1&sort=1&ftyp=all&fgrp=all&flan=all&fyrs=all" target="_blank">akhuwat Microfinance ؛ Interest-free ؛ Interest-free Microcredit ؛ Microcredit ؛ Microfinance

ناشر :

Routledge

سال :

1401/2022

نویسنده :

Khan, Maazullah ؛ Bedi, Arjun S.

چکیده

The existing experimental evidence on returns to capital is based on randomisation of either interest-bearing loans or grants. This paper reports on a field experiment conducted in Pakistan in which interestfree loans were randomly provided to microenterprises. The study was conducted in co-operation with Akhuwat Islamic Microfinance. We find that treatment leads to a substantial increase in working capital and in business profits. Using randomised treatment as an instrument for capital, we find average monthly returns to capital of 8.6 to 11.9 percent a month. These returns are higher than the interest rates charged by conventional Microfinance institutions in Pakistan