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Liquidity or capital? : the impacts of easing credit constraints in rural Mexico

Aparicio, Gabriela; Bobić, Vida; De Olloqui, Fernando; … - 2021

This paper evaluates the effectiveness of easing credit constraints for rural producers in Mexico through loans provided by a national public development finance institution. In contrast to most of the existing literature, the study focuses on the effect of medium-sized loans over a two- to...

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Use of income, and financial behaviour on Danish agricultural firms

Rasmussen, Svend - 1998

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Mandatory credit allocation and government guarantee

Dumlao, Luis F. - 2021

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Technology adoption and access to credit via mobile phones

Gupta, Apoorv; Ponticelli, Jacopo; Tesei, Andrea - 2019

Farmers in developing countries often lack access to timely and reliable information about modern technologies that are essential to improve agricultural productivity. The recent diffusion of mobile phones has the potential to overcome these barriers by making information available to those...

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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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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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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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Smart development banks

Fernández Arias, Eduardo; Hausmann, Ricardo; Panizza, Ugo - 2019

The conventional paradigm about development banks is that these institutions exist to target well-identified market failures. However, market failures are not directly observable and can only be ascertained with a suitable learning process. Hence, the question is how do the policymakers know...

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The importance of leasing for SME finance

Kraemer-Eis, Helmut; Lang, Frank - 2012

It is well known that Micro and Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs) are the backbone of the economy. Most of these companies use external financing sources like debt and equity capital to finance their activities. However, in general, in the area of SMEs' access to finance, there are...

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