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Money Matters: Reaching Women Microentrepreneurs with Financial Services Title: Dinero que cuenta: Servicios financieros al alcance de la mujer microempresaria
Almeyda-Stemper, Gloria - Inter-American Development Bank
the financial services offered by a range of institutions, including commercial banks, credit unions, and nongovernmental … institutions within and across countries. It shows that, in addition to nongovernmental organizations, credit unions and some … commercial banks, can and do provide appropriate savings, credit, and other financial services to microentrepreneurs in general …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010772455
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Microfinance and Poverty: Questioning the Conventional Wisdom Title: Microfinanzas y pobreza: ¿Son válidas las ideas preconcebidas?
Gulli, Hege - Inter-American Development Bank
Microfinance and Poverty probes a set of assumptions that have arisen about microfinance and poverty reduction and that have become the conventional wisdom, although they have not been proven. These assumptions are examined through a review and analysis of theoretical and applied literature on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010772492
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Credit Frictions and "Sudden Stop" in Small Open Economies: An Equilibrium Business Cycle Framework for Emerging Markets Crises
Arellano, Cristina; Mendoza, Enrique G. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002
are distorted even when credit constraints do not bind. Sudden Stops are a property of the unique, flexible …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944555
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Money Matters: Reaching Women Microentrepreneurs with Financial Services Title: Dinero que cuenta: Servicios financieros al alcance de la mujer microempresaria
Almeyda-Stemper, Gloria - Inter-American Development Bank
the financial services offered by a range of institutions, including commercial banks, credit unions, and nongovernmental … institutions within and across countries. It shows that, in addition to nongovernmental organizations, credit unions and some … commercial banks, can and do provide appropriate savings, credit, and other financial services to microentrepreneurs in general …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943529
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Microfinance and Poverty: Questioning the Conventional Wisdom Title: Microfinanzas y pobreza: ¿Son válidas las ideas preconcebidas?
Gulli, Hege - Inter-American Development Bank
Microfinance and Poverty probes a set of assumptions that have arisen about microfinance and poverty reduction and that have become the conventional wisdom, although they have not been proven. These assumptions are examined through a review and analysis of theoretical and applied literature on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943570
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Microcredit Impact Assessment: The Brazilian and Chilean Cases Title: Microcrédito, evaluación de impacto: Casos Brasil y Chile
Aroca, Patricio A. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002
beneficiaries of micro-credit programs with non-beneficiaries with similar characteristics. Using propensity score and matching …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943746
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Microcredit Impact Assessment: The Brazilian and Chilean Cases
Aroca, Patricio A. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002
beneficiaries of micro-credit programs with non-beneficiaries with similar characteristics. Using propensity score and matching …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009205758
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Financial Integration and Foreign Banks in Latin America: How Do They Impact the Transmission of External Financial Shocks?
Galindo, Arturo José; Izquierdo, Alejandro; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010
This paper explores the impact of international financial integration on credit markets in Latin America, using a cross … international financial shocks on aggregate credit and interest rate fluctuations. Nonetheless, the net impact of integration on … deepening credit markets dominates for the large majority of states of nature. The paper also uses a detailed bank-level dataset …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008621681
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Unlocking SME Finance in Argentina with Psychometrics
Klinger, Bailey; Castro, Lucio; Szenkman, Paula; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013
problem among newly created SMEs that have a scant credit record and frequently lack collateral. The authors of this paper … carried out a pilot test of an innovative psychometric tool aimed at evaluating credit risk among SME clients of Banco Ciudad … repayment records to determine if psychometric-based credit scoring models could help ameliorate the constraints to SME finance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010672755
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Improving Credit Risk Analysis with Psychometrics in Peru
Klinger, Bailey; Khwaja, Asim; LaMonte, Joseph - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013
paper, the authors carried out a pilot test of an innovative psychometric tool aimed at evaluating credit risk for business … compared to self-reported sales, subsequent loan repayment performance, and credit bureau data to determine if psychometric …-based credit scoring models could reduce the constraints on MSME finance. The authors created a scorecard based on that information …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010699798