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This paper analyses the role of banks in financing SMEs in Britain and Germany. It applies a sociological institutionalist approach to understand how banks construct and manage risk, relating to SME business. The empirical analysis is based on the results of a comparative survey of a sample of...
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Jabal al-Hoss is one of the poorest areas in Syria where UNDP has supported the establishment of self-reliant local financial institutions, sanduq (sg.) lit. savings box: a novel concept in centralized banking system. The sanadiq (pl.) are self-managed and autonomous in their decision-making,...
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Microfinance is not a recent development, and neither is the development of regulation and supervision of microfinance … institutions (MFIs). Every now developed country has its own history of microfinance. It is important to recognize this because it … presents a view different from that of many in the microfinance community who associate microfinance with credit NGOs and …
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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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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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, 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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We argue that China's rising shadow banking was inextricably linked to potential balancesheet risks in the banking system. We substantiate this argument with three didactic findings: (1) commercial banks in general were prone to engage in channeling risky entrusted loans; (2) shadow banking...
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