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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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Ability or Finances as Constraints on Entrepreneurship? Evidence from Survival Rates in a Natural Experiment
Andersen, Steffen; Nielsen, Kasper Meisner - 2012
We use a natural experiment in Denmark to test the hypothesis that aspiring entrepreneurs face financial constraints because of low entrepreneurial quality. We identify 304 constrained entrepreneurs who start a business after receiving windfall wealth and examine the performance of these...
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The evolution of owner-entrepreneurs' taxation : five tax regimes over a 160-year period
Elert, Niklas; Johansson, Dan; Stenkula, Mikael; … - 2022
entrepreneurship empirically by means of investments made by active owners of closely held firms. Using detailed Swedish tax data, we …
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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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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 …
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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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Economic growth, innovation, cultural diversity : what are we all talking about? ; a critical survey of the state-of-the-art
Maignan, Carole (ed.); Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P. (ed.);  … - 2003
This report constitutes the first deliverable of the project ENGIME Economic Growth and Innovation in Multicultural Environments, financed by the European Commission FP5 Key Action: Improving socio-economic knowledge base. Contract HPSE-CT2001-50007
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Lecciones a partir de experimentos de formalización empresarial
Galiani, Sebastián; Meléndez Arjona, Marcela - 2013
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High-skilled labour mobility in an era of protectionism : foreign startups and India
Mikherjee, Arpita; Kapoor, Avantika; Parashar, Angana - 2018
Realisation that foreign startups have the potential to add new and innovative products and services to the market, bring in investment and create more jobs compared to traditional firms, a number of countries are providing fiscal and non-fiscal incentives, including startup visas, to attract...
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Financing ventures
Greenwood, Jeremy; Han, Pengfei; Sanchez, Juan M. - 2017
The relationship between venture capital and growth is examined using an endogenous growth model incorporating dynamic contracts between entrepreneurs and venture capitalists. At each stage of financing, venture capitalists evaluate the viability of startups. If viable, venture capitalists...
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