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Shielding the Poor presents a group of studies on social protection in the developing world from leading researchers. These studies address the issue of vulnerability of the poor to adverse shocks and propose policies to increase their protection and coping capacity. The studies emphasize the...
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field of microfinance.Abstract: El acceso de la mujer microempresaria a los servicios financieros es clave para sus …
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The objective of this paper is to evaluate the impact of micro-entrepreneurs income on two Brazilian and Chilean 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...
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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 …
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Using borrower-level data from FINCA, one of Peru's leading microfinance institutions (MFIs), this paper evaluates the …
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individual microfinance institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean, in hopes of strengthening the microfinance industry and … microfinance industry in Latin America and the Caribbean. …
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sector and the microfinance industry in the Anglophone Caribbean. Second, it will examine the main factors that help explain … the differences in the development of sustainable microfinance in the Anglophone Caribbean compared to Latin America … microfinance and microenterprise development in the Caribbean in the last fifteen years and what has it achieved. And fourth, it …
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This paper examines each major element of the village banking technology and how it has been liberalized so far, particularly in four leading Latin American village banking institutions: FINCA Nicaragua, Pro Mujer Bolivia, Compartamos (in Mexico), and CRECER (in Bolivia). It then analyzes how...
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