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Returns to microcredit, cash grants and training for male and female microentrepreneurs in Uganda
Fiala, Nathan - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 105 (2018), pp. 189-200
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011977304
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Measurement and determinants of access to loans
Hainz, Christa; Nabokin, Tatjana - 2013
limitations perception-based indicators or approximations of access to finance by the usage of finance are often used …, disregarding firm-specific differences in the demand for external finance. Using unique firm-level survey data, which provide … for future survey design. -- access to finance ; usage of finance ; credit demand, perceived access to finance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009728261
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Is micro too small? : microcredit vs. SME finance
Bauchet, Jonathan; Morduch, Jonathan - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 43 (2013), pp. 288-297
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009725730
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Complementing business training with access to finance : evidence from SMEs in Kenya
Ashraf, Anik; Lyons, Elizabeth - 2023
This paper investigates the complementarity between business training and access to financial capital for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Kenya. All participants in a business training program are offered training. One-third of participants are offered loans immediately after training...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014332125
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Gender, access to finance, occupational choice, and business performance
Gazanchyan, Nelli S.; Hashimzade, Nigar; Rodionova, Yulia; … - 2017
We present a theoretical and empirical analysis of the links between the gender of an entrepreneur, access to finance … medium enterprises, possibly, because in large firms borrowing is a less essential source of finance. An important policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011610923
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Finance and Growth for Microenterprises : evidence from Rural China
Beck, Thorsten; Lu, Liping; Yang, Rudai - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 67 (2015), pp. 38-56
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011338220
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Small firms, large impact? : a systematic review of the SME finance literature
Kersten, Renate; Harms, Job; Liket, Kellie; Maas, Karen - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 97 (2017), pp. 330-348
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011763528
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The political economy of liberal democracy
Mukand, Sharun W.; Rodrik, Dani - 2017 - Revised March 2017
We distinguish between three sets of rights - property rights, political rights, and civil rights - and provide a taxonomy of political regimes. The distinctive nature of liberal democracy is that it protects civil rights (equality before the law for minorities) in addition to the other two....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011646290
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On modes of economic governance
Dixit, Avinash K. - 2001
I consider transactions involving asymmetric prisoners dilemmas between pairs of players selected chosen from two large populations. Games are played repeatedly, but information about cheating is not adequate to sustain cooperation, and there is no official legal system of contract enforcement....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400856
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Legal pluralism and decentralization : natural resource management in Mali
Benjamin, Charles E. - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 36 (2008) 11, pp. 2255-2276
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003798276