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Microfinance and Moneylenders : Long-Run Effects of Mfis on Informal Credit Market in Bangladesh
Berg, Claudia N. - 2017
Using two surveys from Bangladesh, this paper provides evidence on the effects of microfinance competition on village …: proponents claim that competition of microfinance institutions reduces both the moneylender interest rate and households … address selection on unobservables without imposing standard exclusion restrictions, this paper finds that microfinance …
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The Role of Services in Rural Income : The Case of Vietnam
Aksoy, Ataman - 2016
This paper investigates the role of services in the household response to trade reforms in Vietnam. The relative response of the households and income growth after a major trade liberalization in rice are analyzed aiming to answer the following questions: What type of households, in which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747796
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Income Diversification in Zimbabwe : Welfare Implications from Urban and Rural Areas
Ersado, Lire - 2016
The author examines, taking into account the urban-rural divides, the changes and welfare implications of income diversification in Zimbabwe following macroeconomic policy changes and droughts of the early 1990s. Data from two comparable national income, consumption and expenditure surveys in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012748016
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E-Commerce Participation and Household Income Growth in Taobao Villages
Luo, Xubei - 2019
E-commerce has developed rapidly in China, and Taobao Villages, which are villages significantly engaged in e-commerce, are prospering in rural areas. E-commerce is fostering entrepreneurship and creating flexible and inclusive employment opportunities, including for women and youth. This paper...
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Jati Inequality in Rural Bihar
Joshi, Shareen - 2018
Caste is a persistent driver of inequality in India, and it is generally analyzed with government-defined broad categories, such as Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe. In everyday life, however, caste is lived and experienced as jati, which is a local system of stratification. Little is known...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912317
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Responses to Weather and Climate : A Cross-Section Analysis of Rural Incomes
Noack, Frederik - 2017
How much do poor rural households rely on environmental extraction from natural ecosystems? And how does climate variability impact their livelihoods? This paper sheds light on these two questions with household income data from the Poverty and Environment Network pantropical data set, combined...
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Poverty and Inequality Maps for Rural Vietnam : An Application of Small Area Estimation
Nguyen, Cuong Viet - 2017
The objective of the paper is to update the small area estimates of poverty and inequality for rural Vietnam. The new estimates of province and district level poverty for the year 2006, when combined with estimates available for 1999, allow for examination of how poverty has changed in rural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976345
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Identification Strategy : A Field Experiment on Dynamic Incentives in Rural Credit Markets
Giné, Xavier - 2017
How do borrowers respond to improvements in a lender's ability to punish defaulters? This paper reports the results of a randomized field experiment in rural Malawi that examines the impact of fingerprinting borrowers in a context where a unique identification system is absent. Fingerprinting...
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Seasonality of Rural Finance
Khandker, Shahidur R. - 2017
active in rural areas take different measures to address the covariate risks in intermediation. For example, microfinance … financial inclusion policies of micro-finance institutions have successfully helped reduce the adverse effects of covariate … risks. Analysis of household and program level data from Bangladesh suggests that despite the innovative measures taken by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012961228
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Transport Costs, Comparative Advantage, and Agricultural Development : Evidence from Jamuna Bridge in Bangladesh
Blankespoor, Brian - 2018
. The empirical context of the analysis is the Jamuna bridge in Bangladesh, which opened in 1998 and reduced the transport …
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