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Targeting credit through community members
Vera Cossío, Diego Alejandro - 2019
Limited borrower information may create targeting distortions in credit markets. Community-based lending programs may reduce these distortions by exploiting information transmitted in local networks, but connections may create asymmetries in power. This paper analyzes how local leaders balance...
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Interest rates and implications for microfinance in Latin America and the Caribbean
Campion, Anita; Ekka, Rashmi Kiran; Wenner, Mark D. - 2010
Microfinance institutions (MFIs) have been successful in providing credit to millions of low-income borrowers in groups … examine microfinance interest rates and their determinants in order to understand how these rates might be lowered. Using high …
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Micro-insurance in India : trends and strategies for further extension
Ahuja, Rajeev (contributor);  … - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003005613
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The unfulfilled promise of microfinance in Kenya : the KDA experience
Osterloh, Sharon M. (contributor);  … - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003403009
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Mission drift in microcredit and microfinance institution incentives
Biancini, Sara; Ettinger, David; Venet, Baptiste - 2017
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Merge or fail? : The determinants of mergers and bankruptcies in Switzerland, 1995 - 2000
Bühler, Stefan (contributor); Kaiser, Christian (contributor) - 2005
This paper examines the determinants of mergers and bankruptcies, using firm level data from the Swiss Business Census and the Dun & Bradstreet exit database for Switzerland (1995-2000). Employing duration analysis, we find considerable differences in the determinants of mergers and...
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Why do firms recruit internationally? : Result from the IZA International Employer Survey 2000
Winkelmann, Rainer (contributor) - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]
The paper studies the demand for foreign university graduates at the firm level. Using a unique dataset on recruitment policies of firms in four European countries, the determinants of demand for internationally mobile highly skilled employees are established. I investigate the number, origin,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001729411
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Innovation, efficiency and inclusion : integration of digital technologies in the Indian microfinance sector
Ray, Saon; Paul, Sandeep; Miglani, Smita - 2018
Digital technologies are rapidly making inroads into all realms of human life and the microfinance sector is one such … inclusion. This paper explores how these mechanisms - innovation, inclusion and efficiency - have been integral to microfinance … operations in the past, and how innovations in digital technology may be yet another opportunity for microfinance institutions to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011919386
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The impact of a financial inclusion program on household's payment choice, savings, and credit
Gandelman, Néstor; Lluberas, Rodrigo; Misail, Daniel - 2023
Uruguay implemented an ambitious financial inclusion program that included a fiscal stimulus through VAT rebates and subsidies for point of sale (POS) adoption. One of its main provisions banned cash payment of wages and social benefits and forced financial institutions to open wage-accounts...
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Assessing the role of microfinance in fostering adaptation to climate change
Agrawala, Shardul; Carraro, Maëlis - 2010
Much of the current policy debate on adaptation to climate change has focussed on estimation of adaptation costs, ways … change. It is in this context that microfinance merits a closer look. This paper offers the first empirical assessment of the … linkages between microfinance supported activities and adaptation to climate change. Specifically, the lending portfolios of …
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