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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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Russian Federation Financial Sector Assessment Program : Financial Inclusion
World Bank - 2016
levels of trust in the formal financial sector among the Russian population, in particular for microfinance institutions …
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Financial Inclusion in Brazil : Building on Success
World Bank - 2014
The development of a far reaching correspondent banking network is one of the key factors behind Brazil's success story in financial inclusion. Between 2005 and 2011, the number of correspondents approximately doubled to more than 160,000. The Central Bank encouraged financial institutions to...
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El Salvador Financial Sector Assessment Program Update : Financial Inclusion
World Bank (contributor);  … - World Bank - 2010
Financial service provision has expanded since the 2004 financial sector assessment program (FSAP) update, but access to financial services can expand greatly through mobile banking. An estimated 47 percent of adults in El Salvador have deposit accounts at a regulated financial institution,...
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El Salvador Financial Sector Assessment Program Development Module : Financial Inclusion
World Bank - 2016
microfinance sector is diverse and competitive and reforms are underway to strengthen regulation and supervision, but capacity is … an issue. Also, the microfinance prudential regulation should be improved to be in line with international good practices … areas relevant to financial inclusion "notably small and medium enterprise finance, financial education, microfinance …
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The new microfinance handbook : a financial market system perspective
Nelson, Candace (contributor);  … - 2013
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Measuring microfinance access : building on existing cross-country data
Honohan, Patrick - 2005
"Given the acknowledged need for a new effort to expand the set of available data on direct access to financial services, including a focus on access by those at low income, Honohan provides a selective review of the diverse sources of data that exist and considers how best to build on them. He...
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Mali Financial Sector Assessment Program : The Microfinance Sector
World Bank - 2015
While the microfinance sector is extensively used in Mali (about 1 million members often based in rural areas), the … sector has experienced a major crisis for over six years. The clean-up of the microfinance remains the most pressing priority … for the Malian authorities and the adoption of the emergency plan for the microfinance sector is a key milestone to …
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Access to capital in rural Thailand : An estimated model of formal versus informal credit
Gine, Xavier - 2005
"The aim of this paper is to understand the mechanism underlying access to credit. Gine focuses on two important aspects of rural credit markets in Thailand. First, moneylenders and other informal lenders coexist with formal lending institutions such as government or commercial banks, and more...
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Use of the formal and informal financial sectors : Does gender matter? Empirical evidence from rural Bangladesh
McKernan, Signe-Mary - 2005
"Access to transfers and credit, whether cash or in-kind, is a major source of poverty alleviation and income generation in many developing countries around the world. Women may especially benefit from transfers and credit in countries such as Bangladesh, where they often have few work...
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