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Commodity finance: a commercial proposition? Micro- and Mesofinance for Agricultural Commodity Production, Processing and Trade

Seibel, Hans Dieter - 2003

This Conference brings together the financial experience of rural and agricultural microfinance institutions and the …

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IFAD Rural Finance Policy

Seibel, Hans Dieter - 2000

Two thirds of the Fund?s current projects have a rural finance component; about 21% of the Fund?s resources are dedicated to rural finance.2 Most of IFAD?s target group are small producers engaged in agric ultural and non-agricultural activities in areas of widely varying potential. Direct...

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Global earnings inequality, 1970-2015

Hammar, Olle; Waldenström, Daniel - 2017

, primarily during the 2000s, when the global Gini coefficient dropped nearly 10 points and the earnings share of the world …

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Strategies for Developing Viable Microfinance Institutions with Sustainable Services: The Asian Experience

Seibel, Hans Dieter - 1999

In most developing countries, access to financial services by all segments of the population, including low-income people, is a matter of growing concern. Many governments have responded positively to this concern by embarking on financial system reform. They have attempted to match people?s...

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Rural Finance for the Poor: From Unsustainable Projects to Sustainable Institutions

Seibel, Hans Dieter - 2001

That has to be uppermost in our minds as we think about what microfinance means. For IFAD, the finance issue is crucial … take a wide variety of forms, from intense training of qualifying microfinance institutions, so they may become viable … means of reducing poverty – and understand the challenges that microfinance and microfinance institutions must confront …

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From informal microfinance to linkage banking: putting theory into practice, and practice into theory

Seibel, Hans Dieter - 2007

microfinance, this paper is a personal account of taking turns living in both worlds - each a microcosm of its own-, and bridging …

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De la microfinance informelle au linkage banking: interactions entre théorie et practique

Seibel, Hans Dieter - 2007

, le secteur choisi a été celui de la microfinance. Mon voyage personnel m'a obligé à adopter de nouveaux paradigmes et à …

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Are the poor too poor to demand health insurance?

Ahuja, Rajeev; Jütting, Johannes - 2004

Community based micro insurance has aroused much interest and hope in meeting health care challenges facing the poor. In this paper we explore how institutional rigidities such as credit constraint impinge on demand for health insurance and how insurance could potentially prevent poor households...

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The Poverty-growth-inequality triangle

Bourguignon, François - 2004

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Potential switchovers in comparative advantage: Patterns of industrial convergence

Landesmann, Michael; Stehrer, Robert - 2000

Although there exists a vast literature on convergence and divergence of income levels across countries or regions at the aggregate level, there is only little work on convergence and/or diver- gence processes of productivity and wage levels at the more disaggregated industrial level. These are...

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