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A vast literature has emphasized that small banks are at a comparative advantage in small business lending. In this paper, we show that apart from size, which is negatively correlated with bank specialization in small business lending, organizational characteristics affect bank loan portfolio...
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The South Pacific has experienced a remarkable proliferation of Marine Managed Areas in the last decade. These protected areas, implemented by over 500 communities spanning 15 independent countries and territories represent a unique global achievement. The approaches being developed at national...
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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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