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also derives from the current overriding emphasis on microfinance in rural finance discourse and its celebration as the new …-based research, review of print literature and visit to the selected sites to witness SHGs and microfinance status in India. The …
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Economic development theory has recognized that access to finance enables economic agents of production to exploit growth opportunities. The governments of less developed countries since world war two have been striving hard to enacting suitable policies to enable rural households in accessing...
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This study is based on the results of the non-monetary poverty estimation of the beneficiaries of microfinance in Mali … microfinance program could involve a reduction in the poverty gap between men and women beneficiaries. …
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This paper provides a brief but comprehensive overview of microfinance academic literature with emphasis on recent … innovations, trends and efficiency. In particular, we focus on controversial issues of microfinance, such as commercialization … reviewed literature underline the great improvement in the microfinance field that, however, has not reached its full potential …
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This paper attempts to assess whether participation in a microfinance program helps households generate personal … savings, as distinct from savings through compulsory contributions to the program. We consider a microfinance program … participating in the microfinance program and a “control group” of non-participating households of similar characteristics. Using …
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This paper not only addresses how linkages, direct and facilitating linkages, can benefit microfinance institutions …, could increase the desired effects, efficiency and impact of microfinance in selected jurisdictions. In so doing, it …
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This paper discusses the aspects of lease financing in Bangladesh. Bangladesh is a small but densely populated country in the South Asia and the people of it mainly depend on agricultural. Due to globalization and liberalization the country gradually shifting towards industrialization and lease...
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We study the optimal regulation of a cooperative credit society which has private information on the intrinsic quality of its loan portfolio (adverse selection) and where the cooperative’s choice of effort to improve this quality cannot be observed by the regulator (moral hazard). We...
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This paper not only addresses how linkages, direct and facilitating linkages, can benefit microfinance institutions …, could increase the desired effects, efficiency and impact of microfinance in selected jurisdictions. In so doing, it …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260028
This study aims to assess the microfinance institutions’ (MFIs’) efficiency in the West African Economic and Monetary …
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