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Sowing the seeds for rural finance : the impact of support services for credit unions in Mexico
Bruhn, Miriam; Reddy, Rekha; Ruiz-Ortega, Claudia - 2018
outreach of credit unions in Mexico. Credit unions financing rural borrowers received grants in different years. The study uses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011875306
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School-based management and learning outcomes : experimental evidence from Colima, Mexico
Garcia-Moreno, Vicente; Gertler, Paul J.; Patrinos, … - 2019
A school-based management program was implemented Mexico in 2001 and continued until 2014. This national program …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012051849
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Information disclosure and demand elasticity of financial products : evidence from a multi-country study
Giné, Xavier; Martínez Cuellar, Cristina; Mazer, … - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011760845
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Learning the impact of financial education when take-up is low
Ibarra, Gabriel Lara; McKenzie, David J.; Ruiz-Ortega, … - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011761140
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Promoting parental involvement in schools : evidence from two randomized experiments
Barrera, Felipe; Gertler, Paul J.; Nakajima, Nozomi; … - 2020
environment. This paper examines the effects of low-cost, group-based parental involvement interventions in Mexico using data from … two randomized controlled trials. The first experiment provided financial resources to parent associations. The second … experiment provided information to parents about how to support their children's learning. Overall, the interventions induced …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012390617
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Can regulation promote financial inclusion?
Chen, Rong; Divanbeigi, Raian - 2019
Despite the commitments of the development community toward broader access to finance, financial inclusion rates worldwide are rather unsatisfactory. To date, around two billion adults do not have access to basic financial services such as savings and checking accounts. Attempting to bridge such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012004766
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Financial inclusion in the Europe and Central Asia region : recent trends and a research agenda
Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli; Hu, Bingjie; Klapper, Leora - 2019
Financial inclusion can help promote development. Inclusive financial systems allow people to invest in their education and health, save for retirement, capitalize on business opportunities, and confront shocks. In the Europe and Central Asia region, there is great variation in financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022331
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Behavior revealed in mobile phone usage predicts credit repayment
Björkegren, Daniel; Grissen, Darrell - 2019
Many households in developing countries lack formal financial histories, making it difficult for firms to extend credit, and for potential borrowers to receive it. However, many of these households have mobile phones, which generate rich data about behavior. This article shows that behavioral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012167978
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Financial risk management in agriculture : analyzing data from a new module of the Global Findex Database
Klapper, Leora; Singer, Dorothe; Ansar, Saniya; Hess, Jake - 2019
The ability to manage financial risk is especially important for people earning their living through agriculture. Many farmers only get paid once or twice a year, and households need to stretch their earnings across the year by saving or borrowing money. Moreover, agricultural production faces a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012168011
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The role of gender in agent banking : evidence from the Democratic Republic of Congo
Chamboko, Richard; Cull, Robert J.; Giné, Xavier; … - 2020
This paper uses a unique data set with 1.1 million customer transactions from a microfinance institution in the Democratic Republic of Congo from 2017 to 2018. The paper provides evidence of assortative gender matching in agent banking transactions, as clients prefer to transact with agents of...
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