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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 … pre-existing groups. Evidence of higher consumption - but not income or asset formation - by participants suggests that at … income sources rather than exploitation of new income sources. Evaluation of such programs in ways that allow heterogeneity …

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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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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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Microfinance games

Gine, Xavier (contributor) - 2006

"Microfinance has been heralded as an effective way to address imperfections in credit markets. But from a theoretical perspective, the success of microfinance contracts has puzzling elements. In particular, the group-based mechanisms often employed are vulnerable to free-riding and collusion,...

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Access to finance by Chilean corporations

Sirtaine, Sophie - 2006

"The author assesses the extent to which Chilean firms have access to sufficient and adequate sources of funds. Access to finance has become an important issue for policymakers in Latin America. Small and medium enterprises (SMEs), in particular, complain that their lack of access to adequate...

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Financial performance and outreach : a global analysis of leading microbanks

Morduch, Jonathan - 2006

"Microfinance contracts have proven able to secure high rates of loan repayment in the face of limited liability and information asymmetries, but high repayment rates have not translated easily into profits for most microbanks. Profitability, though, is at the heart of the promise that...

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Scaling-up microfinance for India's rural poor

Basu, Priya - 2005

: India's rural poor currently have very little access to finance from formal sources. Microfinance approaches have tried to … clients to formal financial institutions. The paper offers some suggestions on what it would take to reform these institutions …

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Measuring microfinance access : building on existing cross-country data

Honohan, Patrick - 2005

services, including a focus on access by those at low income, Honohan provides a selective review of the diverse sources of …

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