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Household access to microcredit and children's food security in rural Malawi : a gender perspective
Hazarika, Gautam (contributor);  … - 2008
Using data from the 1995 Malawi Financial Markets and Food Security Survey, this study seeks to discover if women's relative control over household resources or intra-household bargaining power in rural Malawi, gauged by their access to microcredit, plays a role in children's food security,...
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The impact of education on the subjective discount rate in Ugandan villages
Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie - 2009
Heterogeneity in time discounting may reinforce the existing barriers to save and invest faced by rural populations in developing countries. We elicit a subjective discount rate for a varied sample of Ugandan villagers. In accordance with other studies, we have found the discount rate to...
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Multidimensional targeting and evaluation : a general framework with an application to a poverty program in Bangladesh
Robano, Virginia; Smith, Stephen C. - 2013
Many poverty, safety net, training, and other social programs utilize multiple screening criteria to determine eligibility. We apply recent advances in multidimensional measurement analysis to develop a straightforward method for summarizing changes in groups of eligibility (screening)...
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Caste, ethnicity and poverty in rural India
Gang, Ira N.; Sen, Kunal; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2002
This paper analyzes the determinants of rural poverty in India, contrasting the situation of the Scheduled Caste (SC …
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Behavioral foundations of microcredit : experimental and survey evidence from rural India
Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie; Morduch, Jonathan - 2010
experimental measures of time discounting and risk aversion for villagers in south India to highlight behavioral features of … typical lending mechanisms. -- Time preference ; hyperbolic discounting ; self-control ; loan contracts ; microfinance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003959320
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Can women's self-help groups contribute to sustainable development? : evidence of capability changes from Northern India
Anand, Paul; Saxena, Swati; Gonzales Martinez, Rolando; … - 2020
the poorest rural regions of the world (Uttar Pradesh, India). Methodologically, it shows how indicators from the direct …-strand programs can help to explain the paradox as to why nearly 100 million women (in India alone) have participated in self help … programs despite modest global research evidence for micro-finance impacts on nominal incomes. Second, results argue strongly …
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The gender of debt and credit: insights from Rural Tamil Nadu
Guérin, Isabelle; Nordman, Christophe J.; Reboul, Elena - 2020
terms, mostly due to a lack of data. This descriptive paper uses first-hand survey data from southern India disaggregated by …
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Does restricting access to credit affect learning outcomes? : evidence from a regulatory shock to microfinance in India
Kalliyil, Muneer; Sahoo, Soham - 2024
a unique natural experiment that halted all microfinance operations in Andhra Pradesh (AP), India, in 2010. The analysis …This study examines how restricted access to microfinance by households affects children's learning outcomes, utilizing … girls and younger children. By focusing on the effects of regulatory restrictions rather than micro-finance service …
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Can information about jobs improve the effectiveness of vocational training? : experimental evidence from India
Chakravorty, Bhaskar; Arulampalam, Wiji; Imbert, Clément; … - 2021
can improve their placement outcomes. The study setting is the vocational training programme DDU-GKY in India. We find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012549436
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Migrant opportunity and the educational attainment of youth in rural China
De Brauw, Alan (contributor); Giles, John (contributor) - 2006
In this paper, we investigate how reductions of barriers to migration affect the decision of middle school graduates to attend high school in rural China. Change in the cost of migration is identified using exogenous variation across counties in the timing of national identity card distribution,...
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