Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
989244 World Development 2011 15 Pages PDF
Abstract

SummaryWe evaluate the effectiveness of microfinance as a recovery tool after tsunami by testing the impact of an equity injection from foreign donors which recapitalizes a Sri Lankan MFI and allows it to refinance borrowers seriously damaged by the calamity. We find that loans obtained from the MFI after the catastrophic event have a positive and significant effect on the change in real income and in weekly worked hours, and that the impact on performance variables is significantly stronger for damaged than non-damaged borrowers. Results hold after controlling for selection effects and for heterogeneity in both the timing of the intervention and the characteristics of treatment and control samples.

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