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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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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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Indonesia (BRI) and Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives (BAAC, Thailand) as well as ADB/Nepal, which has been …
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negative consequences for the quality of the current and previous cohorts. Our empirical evidence is based on Nepal, which …
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We provide two ways to reconcile small values of the intertemporal elasticity of substitution (IES) that range between 0.35 and 0.5 with empirical evidence that the IES is large. We do this reconciliation using a model in which all agents have identical preferences and the same access to asset...
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impact of these shocks on economic growth. This paper reviews the literature on macroeconomic vulnerability and finds that …
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economic outcomes such as income growth, poverty and inequality indicators. Our analysis is based on microsimulations for eight …
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This paper challenges the conventional view according to which disinflations in LAC-even from low and moderate peaks-have been carried out at no cost to output. After suggesting a new methodology that allows for long-lived effects and inflation inertia when measuring costs of disinflations,...
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The issue of the impact of trade on specialisation structures and the effects of trade liberalisation on employment and labour markets has been intensively discussed in the recent literature on trade liberalisation and globalisation. In Europe this debate has gained new momentum in the...
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distribution, growth and international specialization. The model is explored both for the steady-state properties and the … transitory dynamics of integrated economies. Income inequality affects the patterns of growth and international specialization as …
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