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Microcredit Impact Assessment: The Brazilian and Chilean Cases
Aroca, Patricio A. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002
microcredit programs. Drawing on two unique sources of data, control groups are built using the propensity score to match … beneficiaries of micro-credit programs with non-beneficiaries with similar characteristics. Using propensity score and matching … techniques, the authors compare the average income of individuals that received microcredit to that of control groups, formed by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009205758
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Microcredit Impact Assessment: The Brazilian and Chilean Cases
Aroca, Patricio A. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002
microcredit programs. Drawing on two unique sources of data, control groups are built using the propensity score to match … beneficiaries of micro-credit programs with non-beneficiaries with similar characteristics. Using propensity score and matching … techniques, the authors compare the average income of individuals that received microcredit to that of control groups, formed by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010655528
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Aid Effectiveness: Politics Matters
Bobba, Matteo; Powell, Andrew - Inter-American Development Bank - 2007
The literature on aid effectiveness has focused more on recipient policies than the determinants of aid allocation yet a consistent result is that political allies obtain more aid from donors than non-allies. This paper shows that aid allocated to political allies is ineffective for growth,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010653526
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Access to Credit and the Size of the Formal Sector in Brazil
Pablo D`Erasmo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013
This paper studies the link between credit conditions and formalization in Brazil, as both credit and the rate of formalization have notably increased in the last decade. A firm dynamics model with endogenous formal and informal sectors is developed to quantitatively evaluate how much of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010662976
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Microcrédito, evaluación de impacto: Casos: Brasil y Chile
Aroca, Patricio A. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002
Los programas de microcrédito de bancos y organizaciones no gubernamentales brasileños y chilenos se evalúan con base en dos fuentes distintas de datos. Mediante la utilización del puntaje de predisposición y técnicas de emparejamiento, comparamos el ingreso promedio de las personas que...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009199228
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Microcrédito y su Impacto: Un Acercamiento con Datos Chilenos
Henriquez, Francisca - Inter-American Development Bank - 2009
Esta investigación busca contribuir empíricamente a la discusión sobre el efecto de las microfinanzas. El estudio presenta una evaluación de impacto del uso intensivo del crédito sobre el desempeño de microempresas chilenas con acceso a este tipo de financiamiento. Los resultados...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008594119
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Second-tier Government Banks and Access to Credit: Micro-Evidence from Colombia
Eslava, Marcela; Maffioli, Alessandro; Arjona, Marcela … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
Government-owned development banks have often been justified by the need to respond to financial market imperfections that hinder the establishment and growth of promising businesses, and as a result, stifle economic development more generally. However, evidence on the effectiveness of these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010653545
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Signaling Creditworthiness in Peruvian Microfinance Markets: The Role of Information Sharing
Frisancho, Veronica - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
Using borrower-level data from FINCA, one of Peru's leading microfinance institutions (MFIs), this paper evaluates the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010617874
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Interest Rates and Implications for Microfinance in Latin America and the Caribbean
Ekka, Rashmi Kiran; Wenner, Mark D.; Campion, Anita - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010
Microfinance institutions (MFIs) have been successful in providing credit to millions of low-income borrowers in groups … examine microfinance interest rates and their determinants in order to understand how these rates might be lowered. Using high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010654654
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Do Welfare Programs Damage Interpersonal Trust? Experimental Evidence from Representative Samples for Four Latin American Cities
Chong, Alberto; Ñopo, Hugo; Rios, Vanessa - Inter-American Development Bank - 2009
trust in laboratory games. The paper employs experimental data for representative samples of individuals in four Latin … American capital cities (Bogota, Lima, Montevideo, and San Jose), finding that participation in welfare programs damage trust … the notion that low take-up rates may be due to stigma linked with trust and social capital, rather than transaction costs. …
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