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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.
Authors
CPP Co-Director
Orazio is an International Research Fellow at the IFS, a Professor at Yale and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Research Fellow University College London
Emla Fitzsimons is a Professor of Economics at the University College London Institute of Education and a Research Fellow at the IFS.
Heike Harmgart
Associate Director
Britta is an IFS Associate Director, Associate Staff at the Department of Economics at the UC and Researcher at NIHR Obesity Policy Research Unit.
Ralph De Haas
Report details
- Publisher
- European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Suggested citation
Attanasio, O et al. (2012). Group lending or individual lending? Evidence from Mongolia. London: European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Available at: https://ifs.org.uk/publications/group-lending-or-individual-lending-evidence-mongolia (accessed: 29 March 2024).
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