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This article analyzes the main existing theories on income and population city growth: the existence of increasing returns to scale, the importance of locational fundamentals, and random growth. To do this we develop a nonlinearity test that is implemented to a dataset on urban, climatological...
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Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) is the largest and most ambitious public works program for poverty alleviation, adopted by Government of India since independence. It was implemented in year 2006, starting with the first phase of 200 most backward districts in...
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: •Contract details should be clearly documented; •Microfinance program should bear the entire financial risk without demanding …; •Microentrepreneur has full control over business management, while supervision is the right of the microfinance program. …
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This note critically discusses the possible endogenous problems that microfinance sector in Bangladesh should seriously … are better option than microfinance. …
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This article presents a practical methodology to monitor poverty changes among microfinance clients using available … microfinance practitioners to verify whether their clients are moving out of poverty and validate management strategies aiming to …
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We analyze the determinants of portfolio yield of microfinance institutions in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan … improves the financial results of microfinance institutions whereas the effectiveness of group lending or advantages of rural … governance forms of microfinance institutions and the macroeconomic factors potentially influencing the financial performance of …
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Microfinance (MF) and family planning (FP) are thought to be very important interventions in the promotion of human …
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In this paper we argue that the promotion of women in microfinance initiatives and the bias against men is taking place … the goal to encourage microfinance to promote women empowerment and economic development. …
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A key question in development economics is whether nutritional deficiencies generate intergenerational poverty traps by reducing the earnings potential of children born into poverty. To assess the causal influence on human capital of one of the most widespread micronutrient deficiencies,...
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replication permits us to estimate the extent of this misattribution. Using an option-based model, we find evidence that the value … fund returns. Coupled with the competition from hedge fund replication vehicles, this finding may motivate hedge fund …
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