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Ravallion, Martin - 1997

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Scaling-up microfinance for India's rural poor

Basu, Priya - 2005

"This paper reviews the current level and pattern of access to finance for India's rural poor and examines some of the key microfinance approaches in India, taking a close look at the most dominant among these, the Self Help Group (SHG) Bank Linkage initiative. It empirically analyzes the...

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Can financial markets be tapped to help poor people cope with weather risks?

Skees, Jerry Robert (contributor) - 2002

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Rural finance for growth and poverty alleviation in Pakistan

Qureshi, Saeed Ahmad - 1996

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Use of the formal and informal financial sectors : Does gender matter? Empirical evidence from rural Bangladesh

McKernan, Signe-Mary - 2005

such as Bangladesh, where they often have few work alternatives. In this paper, the authors descriptively examine the … formal and informal financial sectors of rural Bangladesh, placing special emphasis on differences between men and women …. Their analysis uses unique data on the credit and transfer behaviors of 1,800 households in rural Bangladesh. The authors …

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Access to capital in rural Thailand : An estimated model of formal versus informal credit

Gine, Xavier - 2005

"The aim of this paper is to understand the mechanism underlying access to credit. Gine focuses on two important aspects of rural credit markets in Thailand. First, moneylenders and other informal lenders coexist with formal lending institutions such as government or commercial banks, and more...

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Searching for sustainable microfinance : a review of five Indonesian initiatives

Ravicz, R. Marisol - 1998

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Wealth : crucial but not sufficient evidence from Pakistan on economic growth, child labor, and schooling

Hou, Xiaohui - 2009

"The relationship between wealth and child labor has been widely examined. This paper uses three rounds of time-series, cross-sectional data to examine the relationship between wealth and child labor and schooling. The paper finds that wealth is crucial in determining a child's activities, but...

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Market integration and structural transformation in a poor rural economy

Söderbom, Måns - 2009

"By developing a simple theoretical model of the impact of market integration on sectoral output and employment in a poor rural setting, this paper demonstrates that trade can induce asymmetric growth. Under certain, plausible, assumptions, the non-farm sector will grow much faster than the...

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Poverty decline, agricultural wages, and non-farm employment in rural India : 1983-2004

Lanjouw, Peter - 2009

"The authors analyze five rounds of National Sample Survey data covering 1983, 1987/8, 1993/4, 1999/0, and 2004/5 to explore the relationship between rural diversification and poverty. Poverty in rural India declined at a modest rate during this period. The authors provide region-level estimates...

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