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Bank Lending to Small Businesses in Latin America : Does Bank Origin Matter?
Clarke, George R.G.; Cull, Robert; Martinez Peria, … - 2013
-such as small businesses-unserved. The authors examine this issue. Using bank-level data for Argentina, Chile, Colombia, and … was considerably smaller for large and medium-sized banks. And in Chile and Colombia, large foreign banks might actually … Peru during the mid-1990s, they empirically investigate whether bank origin affects the share and growth rate of bank …
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Work-Related Migration and Poverty Reduction in Nepal
Lokshin, Michael; Bontch-Osmolovski, Mikhail; … - 2012
Using two rounds of nationally representative household survey data in this study, the authors measure the impact on poverty in Nepal of local and international migration for work. They apply an instrumental variable approach to deal with nonrandom selection of migrants and simulate various...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552679
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China's (Uneven) Progress Against Poverty
Ravallion, Martin; Chen, Shaohua - 2013
While the incidence of extreme poverty in China fell dramatically over 1980-2001, progress was uneven over time and across provinces. Rural areas accounted for the bulk of the gains to the poor, though migration to urban areas helped. The pattern of growth mattered. Rural economic growth was far...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012559841
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Improving Logistics Costs for Transportation and Trade Facilitation
Gonzalez, Julio A.; Guasch, Jose Luis; Serebrisky, Tomas - 2012
Access to basic infrastructure services - roads, electricity, water, sanitation - and the efficient provision of the services, is a key challenge in the fight against poverty. Many of the poor (and particularly the extreme poor) in rural communities in Latin America live on average 5 kilometers...
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Fiscal Responsibility Laws for Subnational Discipline : The Latin American Experience
Webb, Steven B. - 2013
make a time-consistent commitment for fiscal prudence. It examines the cases of Brazil, Colombia, Peru, and Argentina, as …
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Impact of Social Fund on the Welfare of Rural Households : Evidence from the Nepal Poverty Alleviation Fund
Parajuli, Dilip; Acharya, Gayatri; Chaudhury, Nazmul - 2012
The Nepal Poverty Alleviation Fund is a World Bank supported community-driven development program. Its objective is to improve rural welfare, particularly for groups that have traditionally been excluded for reasons of gender, ethnicity, caste, and location. Since its launch in 2004, the Fund...
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Realizing the Gains from Trade : Export Crops, Marketing Costs, and Poverty
Balat, Jorge; Brambilla, Irene; Porto, Guido - 2012
This paper explores the role of export costs in the process of poverty reduction in rural Africa. The authors claim that the marketing costs that emerge when the commercialization of export crops requires intermediaries can lead to lower participation into export cropping and, thus, to higher...
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Are There Lasting Impacts of Aid to Poor Areas? Evidence from Rural China
Chen, Shaohua; Mu, Ren; Ravallion, Martin - 2012
The paper revisits the site of a large, World Bank-financed, rural development program in China 10 years after it began and four years after disbursements ended. The program emphasized community participation in multi-sectoral interventions (including farming, animal husbandry, infrastructure...
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Are Cash Transfers Made to Women Spent Like Other Sources of Income?
Schady, Norbert; Rosero, Jos?? - 2012
How cash transfers made to women are used has important implications for models of household behavior and for the design of social programs. In this paper, the authors use the randomized introduction of an unconditional cash transfer to poor women in rural Ecuador to analyze the effect of...
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Using an Asset-Based Approach to Identify Drivers of Sustainable Rural Growth and Poverty Reduction in Central America : A Conceptual Framework
Siegel, Paul B. - 2012
The asset-based approach considers links between households' productive, social, and locational assets; the policy, institutional, and risk context; household behavior as expressed in livelihood strategies; and well-being outcomes. For sustainable poverty reducing growth, it is critical to...
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