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Microfinance Institutions and Credit Unions in Albania : Regulatory, Supervisory and Market Development Issues
World Bank - 2013
Albania for microfinance, as well as an assessment of institutions rendering microfinance services (MFIs), including the … banking license and focus exclusively on the microfinance market. A tax exemption enables CUs and SCAs to build up capital …
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India : The Regulation of Microfinance - An Analysis of Recent Proposals
World Bank - 2013
of the microfinance community have engaged with the Government of India in a dialogue regarding the regulation of …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 …
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Regional Vaccine Manufacturing and Development
World Bank - 2023
COVID-19 has had a devastating effect on the ASEAN region, which has recorded over 27 million cases of the virus. Despite rapid development of a range of COVID-19 vaccines using innovative technologies, access to these vaccines has been a challenge, with manufacturing mostly concentrated in the...
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Public Management
World Bank - 2012
This Note on public management of pension funds concludes that publicly-managed pension reserves are often used to finance non-pension policy. Public pension fund managers tend to invest based on objectives unrelated to pension provision. These include social and economically target investments...
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Colombia - Programmatic Strategic Engagement on Public Sector Management and Governance : Concept Note
World Bank - 2013
This concept note presents the strategic engagement of the World Bank in the areas of public sector management and governance in Colombia. It describes the short and medium term approach through which the Bank will provide support to the country on those areas of reform, as well as their links...
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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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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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