Evaluation of Impacts of Access to Credit and Loan Size for Microcredit Clients in South Africa

NACompletedINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

3,000

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

September 30, 2004

Primary Completion Date

November 30, 2005

Study Completion Date

November 30, 2005

Conditions
Mental HealthDepressionStress
Interventions
OTHER

Small loan

Applicants in the treatment group were offered an interest rate, loan size, and maturity per the lender's standard underwriting criteria, involving a 4-month maturity at 11.75% per month, charged on the original balance (200% annual percentage rate).

Trial Locations (3)

Unknown

Innovations for Poverty Action, Cape Town

Innovations for Poverty Action, Durban

Innovations for Poverty Action, Port Elizabeth

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

Broadening Access and Strengthening Input Market Systems/USAID

UNKNOWN

collaborator

U.S. National Science Foundation

FED

collaborator

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

OTHER

collaborator

Princeton University

OTHER

collaborator

Social Science Research Council Program in Applied Economics

UNKNOWN

collaborator

Federal Reserve Bank of New York

UNKNOWN

lead

Innovations for Poverty Action

OTHER

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