Councilors who thought performance reports would be published before an election invested more in infrastructure, with positive impacts on re-election

Previous estimates of returns to microfinance for women are low partly because they often use it to invest in businesses that are not their own

Providing poor Indian women with more control of their potential wages increased labour force participation and led to more progressive gender norms

A series of experiments in India provide insights into ways microfinance can be refined to strengthen its impact for the world’s poorest women

How can we combat the increasing trend of extreme poverty not being confined to low-income countries, but also affecting middle-income ones?