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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 … multidimensional poverty measures (and their components) that address key participant deficits. We apply our methods to a BRAC ultra-poverty … program in Bangladesh, and find that our measures of multidimensional poverty have fallen significantly for participants. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329002
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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. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Many poverty, safety net, training, and other social programs utilize multiple screening criteria to determine … multidimensional poverty measures (and their components) that address key participant deficits. We apply our methods to a BRAC ultra-poverty … program in Bangladesh, and find that our measures of multidimensional poverty have fallen significantly for participants. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884251
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Generational accounting, solidarity and pension losses
Teulings, Coen N.; de Vries, Casper G. - 2003
The creeping stock market collapse eroded the wealth of funded pension systems. This led to political tensions between generations due to the fuzzy definition of property rights on the pension funds wealth. We argue that this problem can best be resolved by the introduction of generational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261654
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Generational Accounting, Solidarity and Pension Losses
Teulings, Coen N.; Vries, Casper G. de - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
The creeping stock market collapse eroded the wealth of funded pension systems. This led to political tensions between generations due to the fuzzy definition of property rights on the pension funds wealth. We argue that this problem can best be resolved by the introduction of generational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761958
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Empowering the Vulnerable to Be Entrepreneurs: An Empirical Test on the Effectiveness of the Ghana Microfinance Policy 2006
Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Sackey, Frank Gyimah - 2016
The study aims at testing the Ghana Microfinance Policy set up to support the vulnerable through access to credit. We … entrepreneurs in the rationing behavior of the microfinance companies. This is what we should expect if the policy is effective. Our … results show that even after controlling for a large number of borrower characteristics, microfinance type and credit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584638
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What Makes Small Firms Grow? : Finance, Human Capital, Technical Assistance, and the Business Environment in Romania
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Lup, Dana - 2004
Although the development of a new private sector is generally considered crucial to economic transition, there has been rather little empirical research on the determinants of startup firm growth. This paper uses panel data techniques to analyze a survey of 297 new small enterprises in Romania...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262083
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Behavioral foundations of microcredit: Experimental and survey evidence from rural India
Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie; Morduch, Jonathan - 2010
Microcredit is an innovative financial tool designed to reduce poverty and fix credit market imperfections. We use …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269753
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Economic governance of MFIs: Inside the black box
Arun, Thankom; Annim, Samuel Kobina - 2010
This paper investigates a relationship between economic governance and the dual objectives of Microfinance Institutions … (MFIs): poverty reduction and financial viability. Using an unbalanced panel of 531 MFIs the important role of other … availability and lesser time in securing property enhances the chances of MFIs in achieving their poverty reduction objective …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274571
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Are women more credit constrained? Experimental evidence on gender and microenterprise returns
de Mel, Suresh; McKenzie, David; Woodruff, Christopher - 2008
In a recent randomized experiment we found mean returns to capital of between 5 and 6 percent per month in Sri Lankan microenterprises, much higher than market interest rates. But returns were found to be much higher among men than among women, and indeed were not different from zero for women....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275824
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Contract Structure, Time Preference, and Technology Adoption
Chowdhury, Shyamal; Smits, Joeri; Sun, Qigang - 2020
Do constraints to technology adoption vary by behavioral traits? We randomize 150 villages in Bangladesh into being offered standard microcredit, loans with a grace period, the choice between those two contracts, and control. No discernible average effects are detected on the adoption of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270268