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Are Microcredit Borrowers in Bangladesh Over-Indebted?
Khandker, Shahidur R. - 2017
returns to borrowing from microfinance institutions (MFIS), some borrowers might be taking loans that they will not be able to …
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Pathways to Profits : Identifying Separate Channels of Small Firm Growth Through Business Training
Anderson, Stephen - 2017
This paper identifies separate and unique pathways to profits among small businesses in South Africa that are exposed to marketing or finance training in a randomized control study. The marketing group achieves greater profits by adopting a growth focus on higher sales, greater investments in...
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The Behavior of Russian Firms in 1992 : Evidence from a Survey
Wei, Shang-Jin - 2017
The authors surveyed 41 firms in and around Moscow in the last two weeks of November 1992 to get an empirical handle on how firms are responding to the changing economic environment. They found the following conclusions. There were large negative (supply and demand) shocks to output for a...
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Does Mobile Money Use Increase Firms'Investment? Evidence from Enterprise Surveys in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania
Islam, Asif - 2017
Private investment can be an important engine of economic growth in East African countries, which, despite recent growth rates, are still plagued with adverse economic conditions. Against this backdrop, there has been substantial penetration of mobile money, moving beyond simple person-to-person...
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Does Urbanization Affect Rural Poverty? Evidence from Indian Districts
Calì, Massimiliano - 2017
Although a high rate of urbanization and a high incidence of rural poverty are two distinct features of many developing countries, there is little knowledge of the effects of the former on the latter. Using a large sample of Indian districts from the 1983-1999 period, the authors find that...
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Conflict and Poverty in Afghanistan's Transition
Floreani, Vincent - 2017
intensity at the province level over period 2007-14 with a model of consumption at the household level in 2011. Provincial data …
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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 … the original study and provide more nuanced evidence by comparing Microfinance Institution (MFI) borrowers to those … true microfinance impact. The results suggest that microfinance can make a modest difference for some households in several …
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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
Microfinance is generally seen as a way to fix credit markets and unleash the productive capacities of poor people who … are dependent on self-employment. The microfinance sector has grown quickly since the 1990s, paving the way for other …, generating a backlash against microfinance. This paper reconsiders the claims about microfinance, highlighting the diversity in …
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