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Membership has its priveleges : the effect of social capital and neighbourhood characteristics on the earnings of microfinance borrowers
Gomez, Rafael; Santor, Eric - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001
microfinance borrowers. The paper posits that social capital - social relations that facilitate individual action – is essential …
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Contract structure, risk sharing and investment choice
Fischer, Gregory - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
microfinance institution in India. The experiments confirm the theoretical predictions that joint liability creates two …Few microfinance-funded businesses grow beyond subsistence entrepreneurship. This paper considers one possible … explanation: that the structure of existing microfinance contracts may discourage risky but high-expected return investments. To …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746368
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Repayment frequency in microfinance contracts with present-biased borrowers
Fischer, Greg; Ghatak, Maitreesh - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010
This paper analyzes the theoretical underpinnings of high-frequency repayment, a feature in nearly all microfinance …
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Group lending without joint liability
Fetzer, Thiemo; Quidt, Jonathan de; Ghatak, Maitreesh - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
shed light on an apparent shift away from joint liability lending towards individual liability lending by some microfinance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126231
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Market structure and borrower welfare in microfinance
Fetzer, Thiemo; de Quidt, Jonathan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
Motivated by recent controversies surrounding the role of commercial lenders in microfinance, we analyze borrower …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126412
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Measuring income risk
Burgess, Simon; Gardiner, Karen; Jenkins, Stephen P.; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000
We provide a critique of the methods that have been used to derive measures of income risk and draw attention to the importance of demographic factors as a source of income risk. We also propose new measures of the contribution to total income risk of demographic and labour market factors....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126475
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Credit constraints and growth in a global economy
Jin, Keyu; Guibaud, Stéphane; Coeurdacier, Nicolas - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
We show that in an open-economy OLG model, the interaction between growth differentials and household credit constraints, more severe in fast-growing countries, can explain three prominent global trends: a divergence in private saving rates between advanced and emerging economies, large net...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071411
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Cooperative environmental governance and waste-to-energy technologies in Asia
Forsyth, Tim - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
the Philippines and India, and especially the choice between the technologies of incineration, pyrolysis and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884601
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Tenancy in Palanpur
Tyagi, Ashish; Himanshu, Himanshu - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
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Credit in rural India: a case study
Dreze, Jean; Lanjouw, Peter; Sharma, Naresh - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1997
studies of credit in rural India. …
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