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Financial Intermediation and Policy-Based Lending: Policy Recommendations for Latin America and the Caribbean

Vives, Antonio; Staking, Kim B. - Inter-American Development Bank - 1997

This paper discusses the conditions under which policy-based lending may further economic development within a Latin American and Caribbean context, given the current state of financial markets in most countries of the region. The discussion is intended as a conclusion to the articles presented...

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Integration & Trade Journal: Volume 11 : No. 27 : July-December, 2007

López-Córdova, José Ernesto; Olmedo, Alexandra; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2008

The IDB's Integration & Trade Journal includes articles on the different aspects of integration in Latin America and the Caribbean, on hemispheric integration and, furthermore, on similar processes in other parts of the world. This issue contains the following articles: International Migration,...

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Policy-Based Finance and Market Alternatives: East Asian Lessons for Latin America and the Caribbean

Iglesias, Augusto; Vittas, Dimitri; Stone, Bernel; Cho, … - Inter-American Development Bank

This book contains a selection of the major presentations from the conference: "Policy-Based Finance and Alternatives for Financial Market Development" held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in early 1996. It explores the generally successful East Asian experiences with policy-based finance and...

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Financial Intermediation and Policy-Based Lending: Policy Recommendations for Latin America and the Caribbean

Vives, Antonio; Staking, Kim B. - Inter-American Development Bank - 1997

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Microcredit Impact Assessment: The Brazilian and Chilean Cases Title: Microcrédito, evaluación de impacto: Casos Brasil y Chile

Aroca, Patricio A. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002

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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Interest Rates and Implications for Microfinance in Latin America and the Caribbean Title: Las tasas de interés y sus repercusiones en las microfinanzas en América Latina y el Cari...

Ekka, Rashmi Kiran; Wenner, Mark D.; Campion, Anita - Inter-American Development Bank - 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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Signaling Creditworthiness in Peruvian Microfinance Markets: The Role of Information Sharing

Frisancho, Veronica Cecilia - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

Using borrower-level data from FINCA, one of Peru's leading microfinance institutions (MFIs), this paper evaluates the …

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The Latin American Microfinance Industry: How Does it Measure Up?

Jansson, Tor; Taborga, Miguel - Inter-American Development Bank - 2000

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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Microfinance Issues and Challenges in the Anglophone Caribbean

Wenner, Mark D.; Chalmers, Geoffrey - Inter-American Development Bank - 2001

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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A Tale of Four Village Banking Programs: Best Practices in Latin America

Westley, Glenn D. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2004

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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