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Microfinance and Moneylenders: Long-run Effects of MFIs on Informal Credit Market in Bangladesh
Berg, Claudia; Emran, M. Shahe; Shilpi, Forhad - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Using two surveys from Bangladesh, this paper provides evidence on the effects of microfinance competition on village …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260674
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The role of Islamic Microfinance in Poverty Alleviation: Lessons from Bangladesh Experience
Dhaoui, Elwardi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
In the People’s Republic of Bangladesh, the poverty has been a main challenge since the last decades and its … a gainful employment opportunities. The Islamic banks and the Islamic windows of conventional banks in Bangladesh should … microfinance in poverty alleviation efforts in Bangladesh and how this role can be enhanced. It was intended to establish and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011261764
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The microfinance of reproduction and the reproduction of microfinance: understanding the connections between microfinance, empowerment, contraception and fertility in Bangladesh in...
Duvendack, Maren; Palmer-Jones, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
, Schuler and Riley (1996); Schuler and Hashemi (1994), using naive methods find that MF in Bangladesh increases contraceptive … outweigh substitution. Steele et al (2001), also using data from Bangladesh from around the same time as the PKML study, come …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009223353
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Handling Default Risks in Microfinance: The Case of Bangladesh
Kassim, Salina; Rahman, Md Mahfuzur - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Despite the current enthusiasms in applying the concept of microfinance as a poverty alleviation tool in many countries, the risk management aspects of microfinancing should not be overlooked. This paper highlights several incidences of default risks in microfinance and subsequently, provides a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040687
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High Noon for Microfinance Impact Evaluations: Re-investigating the Evidence from Bangladesh
Duvendack, Maren; Palmer-Jones, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Recently, microfinance has come under increasing criticism raising questions of the validity of iconic studies which have justified the microfinance phenomenon. This paper applies propensity score matching (PSM), which has become widely used for the analysis of observational data, to the study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008784974
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Major impacts of microfinance on the poor: snapshots from Bangladesh
Mallick, Iftekhar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Microfinance has, by now, reached a total of over 60% of all poor households of Bangladesh, and 37% of all households …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107750