This article analyses the geography of innovation in China and India. Using a tailor-made panel database for regions in … between the provinces and states within both countries are quite different. In China, the concentration of innovation is …. Innovative areas in China, rather than generate knowledge spillovers, seem to produce strong backwash effects. In India, by …

microfinance borrowers. The paper posits that social capital - social relations that facilitate individual action – is essential …

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 …

This paper analyzes the theoretical underpinnings of high-frequency repayment, a feature in nearly all microfinance …

shed light on an apparent shift away from joint liability lending towards individual liability lending by some microfinance …

Motivated by recent controversies surrounding the role of commercial lenders in microfinance, we analyze borrower …

the Philippines and India, and especially the choice between the technologies of incineration, pyrolysis and …

studies of credit in rural India. …