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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 …

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Credit Constraints, Agricultural Productivity, and Rural Nonfarm Participation : Evidence from Rwanda

Ali, Daniel Ayalew - 2017

Although the potentially negative impacts of credit constraints on economic development have long been discussed conceptually, empirical evidence for Africa remains limited. This study uses a direct elicitation approach for a national sample of Rwandan rural households to assess empirically the...

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Estimating the Effects of Credit Constraints on Productivity of Peruvian Agriculture

Woutersen, Tiemen - 2017

This paper proposes an estimator for the endogenous switching regression models with fixed effects. The estimator allows for endogenous selection and for conditional heteroscedasticity in the outcome equation. Applying the estimator to a dataset on the productivity in agriculture substantially...

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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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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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Does a Picture Paint a Thousand Words? Evidence from a Microcredit Marketing Experiment

Giné, Xavier - 2017

Female entrepreneurship is low in many developing economies partly because of constraints on women's time and mobility, which are often reinforced by social norms. This paper analyzes a marketing experiment designed to encourage women to adopt a new microcredit product. A brochure with the same...

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Improving Access to Banking : Evidence from Kenya

Allen, Franklin - 2017

impact of Equity Bank -- a leading private commercial bank focusing on microfinance -- on access to banking in Kenya. Unlike … other commercial banks in Kenya, Equity Bank pursues distinct branching strategies that target underserved areas and less …

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Grain Price Spikes and Beggar-Thy-Neighbor Policy Responses : A Global Economywide Analysis

Jensen, Hans Grinsted - 2017

When prices spike in international grain markets, national governments often reduce the extent to which that spike affects their domestic food markets. Those actions exacerbate the price spike and international welfare transfer associated with the terms of trade change. Several recent analyses...

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The Impact of the Global Food Crisis on Self-Assessed Food Security

Headey, Derek D. - 2017

The paper provides the first large-scale survey-based evidence on the impact of the global food crisis of 2007-08 using an indicator of self-assessed food security from the Gallup World Poll. For the sampled countries as a whole, this subjective indicator of food security remained the same or...

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Can Social Safety Nets Alleviate Seasonal Deprivation? Evidence from Northwest Bangladesh

Khandker, Shahidur R. - 2017

This paper examines the role of social safety-net programs in Bangladesh run by the government and nongovernmental organizations to mitigate seasonal deprivation in the country's highly vulnerable northwest region. Specifically, the paper explores whether social safety nets are limited to...

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