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Balboni, Clare; Bandiera, Oriana; Burgess, Robin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

who begin in extreme poverty. The setting is rural Bangladesh and the asset is cows. The data supports the poverty traps …, talent or motivation. The other, the poverty traps view, differences in opportunities which stem from access to wealth. To … (from casual labor in agriculture or domestic services to running small livestock businesses) and grow out of poverty. The …

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Insurance Underwriter or Financial Development Fund : What Role for Reserve Pooling in Latin America?

Eichengreen, Barry - 2006

The accumulation of international reserves by emerging markets raises the question of how to best utilize these funds. This paper explores two routes through which the pooling of reserves could enhance stability and welfare. First, the reserve pool could be used for emergency lending in response...

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Whither the World Bank and the IMF?

Krueger, Anne O. - 1997

On their fiftieth anniversary, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank were" extensively reviewed, both to mark the occasion and to consider, often critically roles and performance. This paper reviews the functions of the two institutions in light of their" evolution over the past...

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Why is there Multilateral Lending?

Rodrik, Dani - 1995

Why should multilateral lending exist in a world where private capital markets are well developed and governments have their own bilateral aid programs? If lending by the World Bank, IMF, and regional development banks has an independent rationale, it must rest on advantages generated by the...

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The Adding Up Problem : A Targeting Approach

Krishna, Kala - 1995

This paper looks at the problem of making multiple lending decisions which affect the supply of the product when the consequences of these lending decisions are interrelated via the effect on the world price of the product. This is termed the 'adding up problem'. It is argued that thinking of...

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Blended Finance

Flammer, Caroline; Giroux, Thomas; Heal, Geoffrey - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Blended finance---the use of public and philanthropic funding to crowd in private capital---is a potential way to finance a more sustainable world. While blended finance holds the promise of being catalytic in mobilizing vast amounts of private capital, little is known about this practice. In...

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Remembering to Pay? Reminders vs. Financial Incentives for Loan Payments

Cadena, Ximena - 2011

We report the results from a field experiment with a micro lender in Uganda to test the effectiveness of privately implemented incentives for loan repayment. Using a randomized control trial we measure the impact of three different treatments: Borrowers are either given a lump sum cash reward...

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Donor Contracting Conditions and Public Procurement : Causal Evidence from Kenyan Electrification

Wolfram, Catherine D.; Miguel, Edward; Hsu, Eric; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

There is limited causal evidence on the effects of different public procurement regulations on project quality and value-for-money for projects funded by national governments and foreign aid donors. This paper uses policy and experimental variation to study how two key contracting...

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Social Finance

Kuchler, Theresa - 2020

We review an empirical literature that studies the role of social interactions in driving economic and financial decision making. We first summarize recent work that documents an important role of social interactions in explaining household decisions in housing and mortgage markets. This...

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Moral Incentives in Credit Card Debt Repayment : Evidence from a Field Experiment

Bursztyn, Leonardo - 2015

We study the role of morality in debt repayment, using an experiment with the credit card customers of a large Islamic bank in Indonesia. In our main treatment, clients receive a text message stating that "non-repayment of debts by someone who is able to repay is an injustice." This moral appeal...

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