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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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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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Re-Re-Reply To"The Impact of Microcredit on the Poor in Bangladesh : Revisiting the Evidence"
Pitt, Mark M. - 2017
"The Impact of Microcredit on the Poor in Bangladesh: Revisiting the Evidence," by David Roodman and Jonathan Morduch (2014) (henceforth RM) is the most recent of a sequence of papers and web postings that seeks to refute the findings of the Pitt and Khandker (1998; henceforth PK) article "The...
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Are Microcredit Participants in Bangladesh Trapped in Poverty and Debt?
Khandker, Shahidur R. - 2017
This paper addresses whether microcredit participants in Bangladesh are trapped in poverty and debt, as many critics have argued in recent years. Analysis of data from a long panel survey over a 20-year period confirms this is not the case, although numerous participants have been with...
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Replicating Replication : Due Diligence in Roodman and Morduch's Replication of Pitt and Khandker (1998)
Pitt, Mark M. - 2017
"The Impact of Microcredit on the Poor in Bangladesh: Revisiting the Evidence," by David Roodman and Jonathan Morduch (2011) is the most recent of a sequence of papers and postings that seeks to refute the findings of the Pitt and Khandker (1998) article "The Impact of Group-Based Credit on Poor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974814
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Seasonal and Extreme Poverty in Bangladesh : Evaluating an Ultra-Poor Microfinance Project
Khandker, Shahidur R. - 2017
Microfinance is often criticized for not adequately addressing seasonality and hard-core poverty. In Bangladesh, a … program known as PRIME was introduced in 2006 to address both concerns. Unlike regular microfinance, PRIME introduces a … microfinance scheme that offers a flexible repayment schedule and consumption smoothing, as well as production, loans. It targets …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976509
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Who Serves the Poor? Surveying Civil Servants in the Developing World
Rogger, Daniel - 2017
, Ghana, Indonesia, Nigeria, Pakistan and the Philippines, to highlight key aspects of their characteristics and experience of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012957069
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Increasing Financial Inclusion in the Muslim World : Evidence from an Islamic Finance Marketing Experiment
Karlan, Dean S. - 2020
Low utilization of household credit in developing countries may be partially due to religious considerations. In a randomized marketing experiment in Jordan, this paper estimates the effect of sharia-compliant loan features on demand for credit. To comply with Islamic law, the sharia-compliant...
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Moral Incentives : Experimental Evidence from Repayments of an Islamic Credit Card
Bursztyn, Leonardo - 2018
This paper studies the role of morality in the decision to repay debts. Using a field experiment with a large Islamic bank in Indonesia, the paper finds that moral appeals strongly increase credit card repayments. In this setting, all of the bank's late-paying credit card customers receive a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012936908
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On the Sustainable Development Goals and the Role of Islamic Finance
Ahmed, Habib - 2017
The Sustainable Development Goals, the global development agenda for 2015 through 2030, will require unprecedented mobilization of resources to support their implementation. Their predecessor, the Millennium Development Goals, focused on a limited number of concrete, global human development...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971752