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Scaling-up microfinance for India's rural poor
Basu, Priya - 2005
key microfinance approaches in India, taking a close look at the most dominant among these, the Self Help Group (SHG) Bank …: India's rural poor currently have very little access to finance from formal sources. Microfinance approaches have tried to … microfinance approaches to coexist. Private sector microfinanciers need to acquire greater professionalism, and the government can …
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Multisectoral Approaches to Addressing Malnutrition in Bangladesh : The Role of Agriculture and Microcredit
World Bank - 2012
effectiveness of sectoral interventions, and how the interventions in the agricultural sector and microfinance can be used to …
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Microfinance in South Asia : Toward Financial Inclusion for the Poor
World Bank - 2006
In South Asia, the modern microfinance movement was born in Bangladesh in the 1970s as a response to the prevailing … a new dimension for microfinance worldwide as microfinance institutions grew to include millions of clients. The start … substantial microfinance system based on Self-Help Groups (SHGs) developed. Other countries of the region made slower and later …
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Fiji Microfinance Policy Review
World Bank - 2013
The Review suggests the outlines of an architecture for microfinance in Fiji in which the National Centre for Small and … technical assistance for microfinance institutions. But to assure a sound financial sector building approach to policy it is …
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Poverty Reduction in Nigeria in the Last Decade
World Bank - 2016
The report consists of four chapters. Chapter one profiles the trends in growth, household consumption, and poverty rates at the national level between 2004 and 2013. Descriptive statistics of consumption and selected poverty indexes are presented and a profile of the characteristics of the poor...
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Nigeria - Targeting Communities for Effective Poverty Alleviation
World Bank - 2012
An important finding from analyzing the survey data from the poverty assessment study on Nigeria is the concentration …
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Linking up and reaching out in Bangladesh : information and communications technology for microfinance
Bagazonzya, Henry K. (contributor) - 2010
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The new microfinance handbook : a financial market system perspective
Nelson, Candace (contributor);  … - 2013
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Economic and social impacts of self-help groups in india
Deininger, Klaus W. - 2009
"Although there has been considerable recent interest in micro-credit programs, rigorous evidence on the impacts of forming self-help groups to mobilize savings and foster social empowerment at the local level is virtually non-existent, despite a large number of programs following this pattern....
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Longer-term economic impacts of self-help groups in India
Deininger, Klaus W. - 2009
"Despite the popularity and unique nature of women's self-help groups in India, evidence of their economic impacts is scant. Based on two rounds of a 2,400 household panel, the authors use double differences, propensity score matching, and pipeline comparison to assess economic impacts of longer...
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