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Are Microcredit Borrowers in Bangladesh Over-Indebted?
Khandker, Shahidur R. - 2017
Microcredit programs in Bangladesh have experienced spectacular growth in recent years, with a growing number of borrowers availing credit from multiple microcredit agencies. There is a growing concern that if there are not sufficient returns to borrowing from microfinance institutions (MFIS),...
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Finanzierung bleibt Engpass für mehr Wachstum
Nerb, Gernot - In: ifo Schnelldienst 57 (2004) 15, pp. 48-49
Insbesondere Klein- und mittlere Unternehmen haben in den letzten beiden Jahren ihre Investitionsvorhaben wegen …
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Unternehmen leiden kaum unter Finanzierungsschwierigkeiten durch die Finanzmarktkrise
Abberger, Klaus; Kunkel, André - In: ifo Schnelldienst 61 (2008) 09, pp. 29-31
Nur wenige Unternehmen klagen über verschlechterte Finanzierungsbedingungen aufgrund der Finanzmarktkrise. Dies ergab … eine aktuelle Befragung von Unternehmen durch das ifo Institut. Die große Mehrzahl der Unternehmen, 82%, berichtete von … unveränderten Finanzierungsmöglichkeiten. Für die kommenden drei Monate befürchten etwa 19% der Unternehmen eine Verschlechterung …
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Finanzierungssituation der deutschen Unternehmen: Finanzierungsschwierigkeiten trotz Wirtschaftsaufschwung?
Drews, Stefan - In: ifo Schnelldienst 63 (2010) 09, pp. 21-24
Umfrageergebnisse deuten seit einiger Zeit auf eine leichte Verbesserung in der Kreditversorgung der Unternehmen hin …. Indikatoren, wie die Eigenkapitalausstattung der Unternehmen und der Banken oder auch die Kreditausfallraten in den Büchern der … Ergebnis, dass viele Unternehmen gerade bei dem jetzt anlaufenden Konjunkturaufschwung überhaupt erst in …
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Women's Movements, Plural Legal Systems and the Botswana Constitution : How Reform Happens
Hasan, Tazeen - 2017
Collective action by women's networks has been a strong driver of legislative change in many countries across the world. Women's groups in Botswana have used advocacy tools such as testing the implementation of gender equality principles in the national court system. In 1992, women's legal...
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Re-Evaluating Microfinance : Evidence from Propensity Score Matching
Cintina, Inna - 2017
This paper evaluates effectiveness of microfinance using Propensity Score Matching (PSM) method applied to data collected in a recent randomized control trial. This method allows one to answer an additional set of questions not answered by the original study and provide more nuanced evidence by...
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Relief from Usury : Impact of a Community-Based Microcredit Program in Rural India
Hoffmann, Vivian - 2017
The impact of micro-credit interventions on existing credit markets is theoretically ambiguous. Previous empirical work suggests the entry of a joint-liability lender may lead to a positive impact on the informal lending rate. This paper presents the first randomized controlled trial-based...
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Micro-Equity for Microenterprises
de Mel, Suresh - 2019
Many microenterprises in developing countries have high returns to capital, but also face risky revenue streams. In principle, equity offers several advantages over debt when financing investments of this nature, but the use of equity in practice has been largely limited to investments in much...
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Microfinance and Economic Development
Cull, Robert - 2017
thinking: from microfinance as narrowly construed entrepreneurial finance toward microfinance as broadly construed household … finance. In this vision, microfinance yields benefits by providing liquidity for a wide range of needs rather than solely by …
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Can Micro-Credit Support Public Health Subsidy Programs?
Augsburg, Britta - 2019
constrained. This paper analyses whether, and how, micro-finance supports a large public health subsidy program in the developing … a cluster randomised controlled experiment of a sanitation micro-finance program that coincided with the launch of the …
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