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Targeting credit through community members
Vera Cossío, Diego Alejandro - 2019
Limited borrower information may create targeting distortions in credit markets. Community-based lending programs may reduce these distortions by exploiting information transmitted in local networks, but connections may create asymmetries in power. This paper analyzes how local leaders balance...
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Do women on boards affect employee benefits? : evidence from the global microfinance industry
Md Aslam Mia - In: Economics letters 210 (2022), pp. 1-5
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Interest rates and implications for microfinance in Latin America and the Caribbean
Campion, Anita; Ekka, Rashmi Kiran; Wenner, Mark D. - 2010
Microfinance institutions (MFIs) have been successful in providing credit to millions of low-income borrowers in groups … examine microfinance interest rates and their determinants in order to understand how these rates might be lowered. Using high …
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Micro-insurance in India : trends and strategies for further extension
Ahuja, Rajeev (contributor);  … - 2005
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The unfulfilled promise of microfinance in Kenya : the KDA experience
Osterloh, Sharon M. (contributor);  … - 2006
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Unsubsidized microfinance institutions
D'Espallier, Bert; Hudon, Marek; Szafarz, Ariane - In: Economics letters 120 (2013) 2, pp. 174-176
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Mission drift in microcredit and microfinance institution incentives
Biancini, Sara; Ettinger, David; Venet, Baptiste - 2017
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Merge or fail? : The determinants of mergers and bankruptcies in Switzerland, 1995 - 2000
Bühler, Stefan (contributor); Kaiser, Christian (contributor) - 2005
This paper examines the determinants of mergers and bankruptcies, using firm level data from the Swiss Business Census and the Dun & Bradstreet exit database for Switzerland (1995-2000). Employing duration analysis, we find considerable differences in the determinants of mergers and...
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Why do firms recruit internationally? : Result from the IZA International Employer Survey 2000
Winkelmann, Rainer (contributor) - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]
The paper studies the demand for foreign university graduates at the firm level. Using a unique dataset on recruitment policies of firms in four European countries, the determinants of demand for internationally mobile highly skilled employees are established. I investigate the number, origin,...
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Innovation, efficiency and inclusion : integration of digital technologies in the Indian microfinance sector
Ray, Saon; Paul, Sandeep; Miglani, Smita - 2018
Digital technologies are rapidly making inroads into all realms of human life and the microfinance sector is one such … inclusion. This paper explores how these mechanisms - innovation, inclusion and efficiency - have been integral to microfinance … operations in the past, and how innovations in digital technology may be yet another opportunity for microfinance institutions to …
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