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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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To invest or not to invest in sanitation : the role of intra-household gender differences in perceptions and bargaining power
Augsburg, Britta; Malde, Bansi; Olorenshaw, Harriet; … - 2021
We exploit novel data collected within a randomised controlled trial of a sanitation microcredit intervention to study how intra-household gender differences in perceptions of costs and benefits of sanitation impact investment decisions. We show that – as long as the wife is involved in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012801992
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To invest or not to invest in sanitation : the role of intra-household gender differences in perceptions and bargaining power
Augsburg, Britta; Malde, Bansi; Olorenshaw, Harriet; … - 2023
We exploit novel data collected within a randomized controlled trial of a sanitation microcredit intervention to study how intra-household gender differences in perceptions of costs and benefits of sanitation impact investment decisions. We show that — as long as the wife is involved in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014371964
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Savings groups reduce vulnerability, but have mixed effects on financial inclusion
Frisancho Robles, Verónica; Valdivia, J. Martín - 2020
This paper evaluates the impact of the introduction of savings groups on poverty, vulnerability, and financial … microfinance lenders among the unbanked. …
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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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Labeled loans and human capital investments
Augsburg, Britta; Caeyers, Bet; Giunti, Sara; Malde, Bansi - 2023
Imperfect capital markets and commitment problems impede lumpy human capital investments. Labeled loans have been postulated as a potential solution to both constraints, but little is known about the role of the label in influencing investment choices in practice. We draw on a cluster randomized...
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Are the poor too poor to demand health insurance?
Ahuja, Rajeev (contributor);  … - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002568082
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Mission drift in microcredit and microfinance institution incentives
Biancini, Sara; Ettinger, David; Venet, Baptiste - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011712972
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A framework for ex-ante economic impact assessment of tourism investments : an application to Haiti
Banerjee, Onil; Cicowiez, Martin; Gachot, Sebastien - 2015
regional economy-wide and poverty impacts of a US$36 million investment in tourism in the south of Haiti. The first social … representative household configuration to enable more robust analysis of tourism investment impacts on poverty and income inequality … of unemployment fell from 26% to 23%. The investment helped lift some of the region¿s poorest out of poverty, reducing …
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Pobreza, vulnerabilidad y la clase media en América Latina
Stampini, Marco; Robles, Marcos; Sáenz, Mayra; … - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011290939