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Loyalty, trust, and glass ceiling : the gender effect on microcredit renewal
Bauwin, Mathilde; Jbili, Walid - 2017
Whereas most research into microfinance tends to focus on the impact of access to such services, very little pays … as most microfinance institutions foster client retention and apply a progressive lending policy. Moreover, as previous … analysed from a gender perspective. The work is based on a case study about the main Tunisian microfinance institution using …
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Career dynamics and gender gaps among employees in the microfinance sector
Ganguli, Ina; Hausmann, Ricardo; Viarengo, Martina - 2017
While microfinance institutions (MFIs) are increasingly important as employers in the developing world, there is little …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011646234
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Poverty and wellbeing impacts of microfinance : what do we know?
Maîtrot, Mathilde; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel - 2017
Over the last 35 years, microfinance has been generally regarded as an effective policy tool in the fight against … address this question, we conduct a systematic review of the quantitative literature of microfinance's impacts in the … the limited comparability of outcomes and the heterogeneity of microfinance-lending technologies, together with a …
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Access to microfinance and female labour force participation
Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Shreya, Nudrat Faria; Wahhaj, Zaki - 2021
Although microfinance started as a movement to improve women's economic wellbeing through increased female …. We fill this gap by combining data on branch locations of the major microfinance institutions in Bangladesh with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012432965
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Capturing economic and social benefits at the community level : opportunities and obstacles for civil society
Slack, Keith - 2017
Civil society organizations have played various roles in promoting the capture of benefits from and protection against the negative impacts of extractive industries. Payment disclosure is one potentially powerful tool for such organizations to promote greater local benefit capture. Practitioners...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011614175
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The use of social accountability mechanisms by Syrian diaspora organizations providing aid in the Syrian crisis
Abdel-Samad, Mounah; Flanigan, Shawn Teresa - 2018
This paper presents data from a study of Syrian diaspora organizations providing assistance to conflict-affected Syrians in Europe, the Middle East, and North America. Using interview data from leaders in three Syrian diaspora non-profit organizations, this paper examines the social mechanisms...
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NGOs and the effectiveness of interventions
Usmani, Faraz; Jeuland, Marc; Pattanayak, Subhrendu - 2018
Interventions in remote, rural settings face high transaction costs. We develop a model of household decision-making to evaluate how non-governmental organizations (NGOs) address these implementation-related challenges and influence intervention effectiveness. To test our model's predictions, we...
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Evaluation of non-governmental development organizations
Elbers, Chris; Gunning, Jan Willem - 2014
Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are now widely used in development economics. However, their use is often resisted by non-governmental development organizations. The objections they raise differ between the three types of activities of such non-governmental organizations (NGOs): capacity...
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Non-state sovereign entrepreneurs and non-territorial sovereign organizations
Brauer, Jurgen; Haywood, Robert C. - 2010
We propose two new concepts, of non-state sovereign entrepreneurs and the non-territorial sovereign organizations they form, and relate them to issues pertaining to state sovereignty, governance failures, and violent social conflict over the appropriation of the powers that accrue to states in...
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Rural financial intermediation and poverty reduction in Ghana : a micro-level analysis
Danquah, Michael; Iddrisu, Abdul Malik; Ohemeng, Williams; … - 2020
addition to rural and community banks and microfinance institutions. Using recent household survey data, we ascertain the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161597