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Why Do People Save in Cash? Distrust, Memories of Banking Crises, Weak Institutions and Dollarization
Stix, Helmut - 2012
The paper analyzes why households in transition economies prefer to hold sizeable shares of their assets in cash at home rather than in banks. Using survey data from ten Central, Eastern and Southeastern European countries, I document the relevance of this behavior and show that cash preferences...
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Economic or non-economic factors: What empowers women?
Swain, Ranjula Bali; Wallentin, Fang Yang - 2008
Microfinance programs like Self Help Group Bank linkage program (SHG), aim to empower women through provision of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321453
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What Drives A Long-Term Relationship In Microcredit? Insights from a Cambodian Microfinance Institution
Lanzavecchia, Alberto - 2016
microfinance institution. Analysis is performed using an OLS regression model.The results confirm positive and significant impacts …
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Effect of Microfinance on Vulnerability, Poverty and Risk in Low Income Households
Bali Swain, Ranjula; Floro, Maria - 2007
Uncertainty and unpredictability faced by low-income households increase their vulnerability making poverty even more … is currently the largest and fastest growing microfinance program in the developing world, has been aggressively promoted … as a way of combating poverty. This paper investigates whether or not SHG participation results in reducing poverty and …
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Financial inclusion: Concepts, issues and policies for India
Singh, Nirvikar - 2017
finance, and microcredit/ microfinance. It goes on to discuss various empirical and institutional studies of these dimensions …
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Reducing vulnerability through microfinance: Evidence from Indian self help group program
Swain, Ranjula Bali; Floro, Maria - 2010
We investigate if participation in Indian Self Help Group microfinance program (SHG) results in reducing vulnerability …
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Women and Finance in Rural andUrban Sudan: A Case Study inGreater Omdurman and Khartoum
Schultz, Ulrike; Makkawi, Asia; Al Fatih, Tayseer - Universität <Berlin, Humboldt-Universität> / … - 2008
In the paper it is inquired how Sudanese women use the financial institutions in order toorganise their lives between market, household, and the community. The results arebased on interviews and observations done in two villages in the surroundings ofOmdurman (Al Gharaza and Sanahir), displaced...
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Health insurance for the poor in India
Ahuja, Rajeev - 2004
Community based health insurance (CBHI) is more suited than alternate arrangements to providing health insurance to the low-income people living in developing countries. The universal health insurance scheme, launched recently by the Prime Minister of India, is only one of the forms that CBHI...
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Populists at work: Italian municipal finance under M5S governments
Bordignon, Massimo; Colussi, Tommaso; Porcelli, Francesco - 2024
This paper empirically investigates the impact of populist governments on public policies and finances. We focus on Italian local governments (i.e. municipalities) over the 2010-2019 period, when a populists, i.e. the Five Stars Movement, became the most voted party in the country. We first...
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Co-movements of Shanghai and New York Stock Prices by Time-varying Regressions
Chow, Gregory C; Liu, Changjiang; Niu, Linlin - 2013
We use time-varying regression to model the relationship between returns in the Shanghai and New York stock markets, with possible inclusion of lagged returns. The parameters of the regressions reveal that the effect of current stock return of New York on Shanghai steadily increases after the...
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