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Is Rationing in the Microfinance Sector Determined by the Microfinance Type? Evidence from Ghana
Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Sackey, Frank Gyimah - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
microfinance type based on the major factors determining micro, small and medium enterprises' access to credit from microfinance … institutions in the era of financial liberalization. The data for the study were gleaned from fourteen microfinance institutions … rationing is not influenced by the microfinance types but by the individual microfinance institutions. …
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Are Women More Credit Constrained? Experimental Evidence on Gender and Microenterprise Returns
de Mel, Suresh; McKenzie, David; Woodruff, Christopher - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
In a recent randomized experiment we found mean returns to capital of between 5 and 6 percent per month in Sri Lankan microenterprises, much higher than market interest rates. But returns were found to be much higher among men than among women, and indeed were not different from zero for women....
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Behavioral Foundations of Microcredit: Experimental and Survey Evidence from Rural India
Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie; Morduch, Jonathan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
experimental measures of time discounting and risk aversion for villagers in south India to highlight behavioral features of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008560756
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Economic Governance of MFIs: Inside the Black Box
Arun, Thankom; Annim, Samuel Kobina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
This paper investigates a relationship between economic governance and the dual objectives of Microfinance Institutions … atmosphere that will enhance the achievement of microfinance social objectives. …
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What Makes Small Firms Grow? Finance, Human Capital, Technical Assistance, and the Business Environment in Romania
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Lup, Dana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Although the development of a new private sector is generally considered crucial to economic transition, there has been rather little empirical research on the determinants of startup firm growth. This paper uses panel data techniques to analyze a survey of 297 new small enterprises in Romania...
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Industrialization Lessons from BRICS: A Comparative Analysis
Naudé, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Lavopa, Alejandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of …
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Do Business Groups Help or Hinder Technological Progress in Emerging Markets? Evidence from India
Bhaumik, Sumon K.; Zhou, Ying - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Business groups, which are ubiquitous in emerging market economies, balance the advantages of characteristics such as internal capital markets with the disadvantages such as inefficient internal distribution of resources and suppression of technological and other forms of innovativeness. In this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884118
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The Fertility-Sex Ratio Trade-off: Unintended Consequences of Financial Incentives
Anukriti, S - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Lower fertility can translate into a more male-biased sex ratio if son preference is persistent and technology for sex-selection is easily accessible. This paper investigates whether financial incentives can overcome this trade-off in the context of an Indian scheme, Devirupak, that seeks to...
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Cycling to School: Increasing Secondary School Enrollment for Girls in India
Muralidharan, Karthik; Prakash, Nishith - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We study the impact of an innovative program in the Indian state of Bihar that aimed to reduce the gender gap in secondary school enrollment by providing girls who continued to secondary school with a bicycle that would improve access to school. Using data from a large representative household...
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Does Political Reservation for Minorities Affect Child Labor? Evidence from India
Kaletski, Elizabeth; Prakash, Nishith - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Scheduled Tribes – on child labor in India. We estimate the effect of political reservation on child labor by exploiting the … Constitution of India. Using data from state and household level surveys on fifteen major Indian states, we find that at the …
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