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This paper studies the effect of government-backed partial credit guarantees on firms' performance. These guarantees are automatically granted to firms without enough collateral in order to lift their credit constraints. We put together a panel, covering the period 1997-2007, that combines data...
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The objective of this paper is to evaluate the impact of micro-entrepreneurs income on two Brazilian and Chilean microcredit programs. Drawing on two unique sources of data, control groups are built using the propensity score to match beneficiaries of micro-credit programs with non-beneficiaries...
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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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Using borrower-level data from FINCA, one of Peru's leading microfinance institutions (MFIs), this paper evaluates the …
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individual microfinance institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean, in hopes of strengthening the microfinance industry and … microfinance industry in Latin America and the Caribbean. …
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sector and the microfinance industry in the Anglophone Caribbean. Second, it will examine the main factors that help explain … the differences in the development of sustainable microfinance in the Anglophone Caribbean compared to Latin America … microfinance and microenterprise development in the Caribbean in the last fifteen years and what has it achieved. And fourth, it …
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This paper examines each major element of the village banking technology and how it has been liberalized so far, particularly in four leading Latin American village banking institutions: FINCA Nicaragua, Pro Mujer Bolivia, Compartamos (in Mexico), and CRECER (in Bolivia). It then analyzes how...
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practices on the topic of regulation and supervision of microfinance operations executed by deposit-taking financial …, as well as the Basel II principles issued by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. to microfinance institutions. In … well as for the microfinance institutions. The recommendations aim to facilitate a harmonious development of microfinance. …
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The primary objective of this document is to put forward standard definitions for the selected financial terms, and suggest a standard method of calculating certain financial ratios. This section defines certain key financial accounts used by MFIs. The definitions are provided in two main...
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This paper aims to reveal some basic trends in the financing of microfinance institutions, such as where the financing … examines key emerging issues that face the increasing number of transformed microfinance institutions, including access to …
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