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economic development and poverty reduction. Individual chapters by leading scholars analyze the nature of the reforms in key …
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poverty in China, particularly in rural areas, which now lag so badly behind urban areas. …
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Although microfinance institutions across the world are moving from group lending towards individual lending, this strategic shift is not substantiated by sufficient empirical evidence on the impact of both types of lending on borrowers. We present such evidence from a randomised field...
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We use an RCT to analyze the impacts of microcredit. The study population consists of loan applicants who were marginally rejected by an MFI in Bosnia. A random subset of these were offered a loan. We provide evidence of higher self-employment, increases in inventory, a reduction in the...
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We use an RCT to analyze the impacts of microcredit. The study population consists of loan applicants who were marginally rejected by an MFI in Bosnia. A random subset of these were offered a loan. We provide evidence of higher self-employment, increases in inventory, a reduction in the...
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We use an RCT to analyze the impacts of microcredit. The study population consists of loan applicants who were marginally rejected by an MFI in Bosnia. A random subset of these were offered a loan. We provide evidence of higher self-employment, increases in inventory, a reduction in the...
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to estimate the combined impact of such insulating behavior on poverty in various developing countries and globally. The … analysis finds that the actual poverty-reducing impact of insulation is much less than its apparent impact, and that its net … effect was to increase global poverty in 2008 by 8 million people, although this increase was not significantly different …
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