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Microfinance In Nepal: Determinants of Viability, Sustainability and Outreach among Grameen, NGO, and Cooperative Microfinance Institutions

Seibel, Hans Dieter; Pant, Harihar Dev; Dhungel, Dipak - 1998

Nepal is one of the poorest countries in the world, with 70% of its population below the poverty line. Subsidized … Kuala Lumpur on Microfinance for the Poor in Asia-Pacific, six MFIs were selected from Nepal and analyzed in terms of …

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From Informal to Formal Finance: The Transformation of an Indigenous Institution in Nepal

Seibel, Hans Dieter; Schrader, Heiko - 1999

finance around the world. In 1988, Seibel & Shrestha traced the evolution of the dhikuti, as RoSCAs are called in Nepal, and … published the results under the title Dhikuti: The Small Businessman?s Informal Self-Help Bank in Nepal in Savings and … Businessman's Informal Self-Help Bank in Nepal dans Savings and Development (XII, 2:183-200). Dix ans apr?s, une innovation …

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Agricultural Development Bank Reform

Seibel, Hans Dieter - 2001

Indonesia (BRI) and Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives (BAAC, Thailand) as well as ADB/Nepal, which has been …

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Violent conflict and the child quantity-quality tradeoff

Nepal, Apsara Karki; Halla, Martin; Stillman, Steven - 2018

negative consequences for the quality of the current and previous cohorts. Our empirical evidence is based on Nepal, which …

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Bundling of Services and Household Welfare in Developing Countries Using Panel Data: The Case of Peru

Chong, Alberto; Hentschel, Jesko; Saavedra-Chanduví, Jaime - 2004

Using panel data for Peru for the period 1994-2000, we find that when households receive two or more services jointly, the welfare increases of the household, as measured by changes in consumption, are larger than when services are provided separately. Such an increase appears to be more than...

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Financing the capital development of the economy: A Keynes-Schumpeter-Minsky synthesis

Mazzucato, Mariana; Wray, Larry Randall - 2015

This paper discusses the role that finance plays in promoting the capital development of the economy, with particular emphasis on the current situation of the United States and the United Kingdom. We define both "finance" and "capital development" very broadly. We begin with the observation that...

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Macroeconomic effects of China's financial policies

Chen, Kaiji; Zha, Tao - 2018

The Chinese economy has undergone three major phases: the 1978-97 period marked as the SOE-led economy, the 1998-2015 phase as the investment-driven economy, and the new normal economy since 2016. All three economies have been shaped by the government financial policies, defined as a set of...

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The financial requirements of achieving gender equality and woman's empowerment

Bahadur, Chandrika; Elson, Diane; Grown, Caren A.; … - 2006

Although the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have been ratified in global and national forums, they have not yet been incorporated into operational planning within governments or international organizations. The weak link between the policies and the investments needed for their...

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Quick impact initiatives for gender equality: a menu of options

Grown, Caren A. - 2006

The UN Millennium Project identified a set of Quick Impact Initiatives (QIIs) for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). According to the Millennium Project, QIIs are interventions to be implemented in the early years of an MDG scale-up strategy that generate rapid results. With...

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Feminist-Kaleckian macroeconomic policy for developing countries

Seguino, Stephanie; Grown, Caren A. - 2006

This paper reviews evidence of the gender effects of globalization in developing economies. It then outlines a set of macroeconomic and trade policies to promote gender equity. The evidence suggests that while liberalization has expanded women's access to employment, the long-term goal of...

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