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This paper presents a conceptual framework for explaining Credit Unions (CUs) loan delinquency and profitability in developing countries. It also offers an empirical estimation for a unique sample of CUs in Latin America.
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This paper examines each major element of the village banking technology and how it has been liberalized so far, particularly in four leading Latin American village banking institutions: FINCA Nicaragua, Pro Mujer Bolivia, Compartamos (in Mexico), and CRECER (in Bolivia). It then analyzes how...
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En este documento, se abordan cómo se puede desarrollar más el sector micro financiero de un país y qué impacto podría tener esto en la distribución del ingreso de dicho país. Recopila argumentos y datos sustanciales para respaldar el punto de vista de que al mejorar el acceso de las...
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Las instituciones de microfinanzas se enfrentan ante varias opciones cuando tienen que decidir cuál es la mejor manera de financiarse: emitir acciones, emitir bonos, obtener préstamos comerciales o concesionales y movilizar ahorros. En este estudio se exploran las tendencias, los costos y...
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Una de las decisiones clave que tienen que tomar los banqueros que estén considerando operar en el nicho de mercado de las microfinanzas es si quieren otorgar microcréditos internamente o quieren hacerlo a través de algún tipo de organización externa como una compañía de servicio o una...
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En este documento se examinan los elementos principales de la tecnología de banca comunal y cómo ésta ha flexibilizado sus características rígidas iniciales desde su introducción en los años 80, en particular en cuatro instituciones líderes de banca comunal en América Latina. Luego se...
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The current study gathers together a large database on the funding side of Latin American microfinance institutions (MFIs), providing detailed coverage of 61 regulated MFIs in nine Latin American countries with major microfinance markets. The study goes on to examine the relative costs of the...
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Banks are increasingly entering into microfinance, and donors such as the IDB are increasingly helping them to do so. Despite this trend, banks continue to make a number of common mistakes in attempting to serve the microenterprise sector. A key to successfully serving this sector is to follow...
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The Opportunities for the Majority Initiative (OMJ) was originally set up for three years as a time-bound pilot initiative. The OMJ team has worked diligently to test the Base of the Pyramid model and develop the OMJ portfolio, and from that standpoint the initiative has been successful....
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This evaluation reviews the relevance, efficiency and effectiveness of the IDB's Program with Ecuador for 2007-2011. The period was characterized by an important political and institutional shift in Ecuador, embodied in the new Constitution of September 2008. Working within the framework...
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