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Gender biases in bank lending : lessons from microcredit in France
Cozarenco, Anastasia; Szafarz, Ariane - In: Journal of business ethics : JOBE 147 (2018) 3, pp. 631-650
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Russia's Long and Winding Road to a more Efficient and Resilient Banking Sector
Barnard, Geoff - 2009
In the decade following the 1998 financial crisis Russia’s banking system grew much larger and stronger – indeed, growth rates were dangerously high – but even before the onset of the current global crisis it continued to play a limited role in intermediating savings and investment,...
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With whom to merge?: A tale of the Spanish banking deregulation process
Lozano Vivas, Ana; Meléndez-Jiménez, Miguel A.; … - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 2 (2011) 2, pp. 159-184
We propose a spatial competition model to study banks’ strategic responses to the asymmetric Spanish geographic deregulation process. We find that once the geographic deregulation process finishes, inter-regional mergers between savings banks are optimal whenever the economies of scale...
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The regulation of prosocial lending : are loan ceilings effective?
Cozarenco, Anastasia; Szafarz, Ariane - In: Journal of banking & finance 121 (2020), pp. 1-20
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The role of gender in agent banking : evidence from the Democratic Republic of Congo
Chamboko, Richard; Cull, Robert J.; Giné, Xavier; … - 2020
Democratic Republic of Congo from 2017 to 2018. The paper provides evidence of assortative gender matching in agent banking … transactions, as clients prefer to transact with agents of their own gender. Female clients show a robust preference for female … balances. The underrepresentation of female agents may contribute to the persistent gender gap in financial access and usage …
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MICROFINANCE IN EUROPE
Klobukowska, Justyna - In: Oeconomia Copernicana 4 (2013) 2, pp. 133-145
Microfinance is often considered as the most useful and effective tool in the fight against global poverty. Moreover, microfinance can be used to support the development of self-employment and micro-enterprises in European countries. It has a double impact: an economic impact as it allows the...
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Political reservations and women's entrepreneurship in India
Ghani, Ejaz; Kerr, William R.; O'Connell, Stephen D. - In: Journal of Development Economics 108 (2014) C, pp. 138-153
We quantify the link between the timing of state-level implementations of political reservations for women in India with the role of women in India's manufacturing sector. While overall employment of women in manufacturing does not increase after the reforms, we find significant evidence that...
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The role of gender in agent banking : evidence from the Democratic Republic of Congo
Chamboko, Richard; Cull, Robert J.; Giné, Xavier; … - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 146 (2021), pp. 1-14
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Trust in banks, financial inclusion and the mediating role of borrower discouragement
Koomson, Isaac; Koomson, Paul; Abdul-Mumuni, Abdallah - In: International review of economics & finance : IREF 88 (2023), pp. 1418-1431
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Social protection programs for women in developing countries : how to design social protection programs that poor women can benefit from
Cameron, Lisa Ann - 2014
Women are more likely than men to work in the informal sector and to drop out of the labor force for a time, such as after childbirth, and to be impeded by social norms from working in the formal sector. This work pattern undermines productivity, increases women's vulnerability to income shocks,...
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