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The main objective of this paper is to study the effects of microfinance on poverty reduction in developing countries, using cross-sectional and panel data. We show that a country with higher microfinance institution (MFI) gross loan portfolio per capita tends to have lower levels of poverty headcount ratio and higher level of expenditure of consumption per capita, confirming the role of microfinance...