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Replicating Microfinance in the United States: Opportunities and Challenges
Schreiner, Mark; Morduch, Jonathan - EconWPA - 2001
In developing countries, microfinance has been the darling of the development community, and in developed countries, microfinance fits well with Third Ways ideas. What are the challenges and opportunities for the attempt to replicate microfinance in the United States? This paper attempts to...
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Microenterprise in the First and Third Worlds
Schreiner, Mark - EconWPA - 2001
Sparked by examples from the third world, hundreds of microenterprise programmes have been started in the first world. Will they be successful? This paper reviews the evidence and concludes that microenterprise development is more difficult in the first world. For example, the microenterprise...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118723
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Evaluation and Microenterprise Programs
Schreiner, Mark - EconWPA - 2001
Microenterprise programs attempt to help poor people start or strengthen small businesses. Funding and political support has grown rapidly. Is microenterprise a good use of scarce development funds? Unfortunately, most evaluations have been case studies in what not to do. Because benefits and...
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Why Individual Investors Want Dividends
Dong, Ming; Robinson, Chris; Veld, Chris - EconWPA - 2004
The question of why individual investors want dividends is investigated by submitting a questionnaire to a Dutch investor panel. The respondents indicate that they want dividends partly because the cost of cashing in dividends is lower than the cost of selling shares. Their answers provide...
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The Firms Speak: What the World Business Environment Survey Tells Us about Constraints on Private Sector Development
Batra, Geeta; Kaufmann, Daniel; Stone, Andrew H. W. - EconWPA - 2004
of the Firms from the World Business Environment Survey”, and based on a chapter in “Pathways Out of Poverty: Private … the World Business Environment Survey (WBES). It shows that important dimensions for the climate of business operation and … investment climate. The survey findings suggest that key policy, institutional and governance indicators affect the growth of a …
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Offshore investment by Australian firms: survey evidence
Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2002
This paper presents the findings of a new survey by the Commission on what motivates Australian firms to operate or … Australian firms of operations overseas typically complements their domestic activities. The survey confirms that relatively few …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124912
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The Economic Costs of Corruption: A Survey and New Evidence
Dreher, Axel; Herzfeld, Thomas - EconWPA - 2005
This paper reviews the empirical literature on the economic costs of corruption. Corruption affects economic growth, the level of GDP per capita, investment activity, international trade and price stability negatively. Additionally, it biases the composition of government expenditures. The...
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ANALYSIS OF THE DECISION MAKING PROCESSES IN NPD PROJECTS WITHIN INNOVATIVE COMPANIES. AN EMPIRICAL STUDY IN THE VALENCIAN REGION (SPAIN)
Iturriagagoitia, Jon Mikel Zabala; Melón, Mónica García - EconWPA - 2005
The decisions made during the design process have a critical impact both on the design solution obtained but also on the design process itself. It can be observed that while the way in which products are developed differs not only across firms but within the same firm over time, what is being...
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MyQuestLight User’s Guide
Yossifov, Plamen - EconWPA - 2003
MyQuestLight is a free Excel add-in for processing questionnaire responses, which can be downloaded from IDEAS (search under Software Components). It leverages on Excel’s flexibility in organizing data, supplementing it with a set of powerful tools for automating the inputting of questionnaire...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556278
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Risk and Insurance in Sharecropping
Braido, Luis H.B. - EconWPA - 2005
This essay summarizes some recent empirical contributions on two aspects of sharecropping: (i) the effects of the contractual form (incentive power and contract length) on resource allocation and farm performance; and (ii) the exogenous elements behind the choice of different contractual forms.
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