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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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Sustainability of microfinance self help groups in India : would federating help?
Nair, Ajai - 2005
"The major form of microfinance in India is that based on women's Self Help Groups (SHGs), which are small groups of 10 …
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Are women more credit constrained? : experimental evidence on gender and microenterprise returns
De Mel, Suresh J. - 2008
"This paper analyzes data from a randomized experiment on mean returns to capital in Sri Lankan micro-enterprises. The findings show greater returns among men than among women; indeed, returns were not different from zero for women. The authors explore different explanations for the lower...
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Does micro-credit empower women? : evidence from Bangladesh
Cartwright, Jennifer - 2003
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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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Measuring Changes in Client Lives through Microfinance : Contributions of Different Approaches
World Bank - 2012
In the past two years, the publication of three impact evaluations of microcredit programs in India, the Philippines, and Morocco precipitated a spate of press reports questioning the value of microcredit and whether it had positive outcomes for poor people (Karlan and Zinman 2009 and Duflo and...
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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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Scaling-up Access to Finance for India's Rural Poor
World Bank - 2013
remarkable; specialized microfinance institutions; and, partnerships between private Banks,, micro-financiers, and service …
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India : The Regulation of Microfinance - An Analysis of Recent Proposals
World Bank - 2013
The Indian microfinance community has been pushing for legal and regulatory reform for several years, motivated … primarily by two desires: (i) formal legal recognition and legitimization of the various types of microfinance institutions … of the microfinance community have engaged with the Government of India in a dialogue regarding the regulation of …
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