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Scaling-up microfinance for India's rural poor

Basu, Priya - 2005

key microfinance approaches in India, taking a close look at the most dominant among these, the Self Help Group (SHG) Bank …: India's rural poor currently have very little access to finance from formal sources. Microfinance approaches have tried to … microfinance approaches to coexist. Private sector microfinanciers need to acquire greater professionalism, and the government can …

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Financial performance and outreach : a global analysis of leading microbanks

Morduch, Jonathan - 2006

"Microfinance contracts have proven able to secure high rates of loan repayment in the face of limited liability and …, though, is at the heart of the promise that microfinance can deliver poverty reduction while not relying on ongoing subsidy …

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A framework for regulating microfinance institutions

Greuning, Hennie van - 1999

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Are there synergies between World Bank partial credit guarantees and private lending?

Huizinga, Harry - 1997

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The developing world is poorer than we thought, but no less successful in the fight against poverty

Chen, Shaohua - 2008

"The paper presents a major overhaul to the World Bank's past estimates of global poverty, incorporating new and better data. Extreme poverty-as judged by what "poverty" means in the world's poorest countries-is found to be more pervasive than we thought. Yet the data also provide robust...

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Strengthening governance through engaged societies : lessons from the implementation of poverty reduction strategies

Sharkey, Katrina - 2006

"In December 1999, the Boards of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund approved a new approach to their relations with low-income countries. The approach was centered around the development and implementation of Poverty Reduction Strategies (PRS), which are intended to be...

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Pending issues in protection, productivity growth, and poverty reduction

Arias, Omar (contributor) - 2005

"This paper selectively synthesizes much of the research on Latin American and Caribbean labor markets in recent years. Several themes emerge that are particularly relevant to ongoing policy dialogues. First, labor legislation matters, but markets may be less segmented than previously thought....

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Poverty impacts of a WTO agreement : synthesis and overview

Hertel, Thomas Warren - 2005

"This paper reports on the findings from a major international research project investigating the poverty impacts of a potential Doha Development Agenda (DDA). It combines in a novel way the results from several strands of research. Intensive analysis of the DDA Framework Agreement pays...

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Inequality is bad for the poor

Ravallion, Martin - 2005

"It has been argued that inequality should be of little concern in poor countries on the grounds that (1) absolute poverty in terms of consumption (or income) is the overriding issue in poor countries, and (2) the only thing that really matters to reducing absolute income poverty is the rate of...

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Agricultural trade reform and poverty reduction in developing countries

Anderson, Kym - 2004

"Anderson offers an economic assessment of the opportunities and challenges provided by the World Trade Organization's Doha Development Agenda, particularly through agricultural trade liberalization, for low-income countries seeking to trade their way out of poverty. After discussing links...

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