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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 …
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Mobile Banking and Financial Inclusion : The Regulatory Lessons
Klein, Michael U. - 2017
Mobile banking is growing at a remarkable speed around the world. In the process it is creating considerable uncertainty about the appropriate regulatory response to this newly emerging service. This paper sets out a framework for considering the design of regulation of mobile banking. Since it...
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Can Regulation Promote Financial Inclusion?
Chen, Ron - 2019
Despite the commitments of the development community toward broader access to finance, financial inclusion rates worldwide are rather unsatisfactory. To date, around two billion adults do not have access to basic financial services such as savings and checking accounts. Attempting to bridge such...
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Financial Inclusion in the Middle East and North Africa : Analysis and Roadmap Recommendations
Pearce, Douglas - 2017
consumer protection and supervisory capacity for microfinance should be strengthened, while prudent competition between …
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Growth (But Not Only) is Good for the Poor : Some Cross-Country Evidence to Promote Growth and Shared Prosperity in Haiti
Antoine, Kassia - 2017
Many low-income countries, such as Haiti, have high ambitions and socioeconomic needs to achieve substantial income growth, especially for the poorest income quintiles. This situation raises the question of policy prioritization, which is often difficult to address, since reliable...
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Distribution of Consumption Expenditure in East Asia
Jirasavetakul, La-Bhus Fah - 2017
Using a new database of household surveys, this paper examines inequality among all individuals living in developing East Asia regardless of their country of residence. The East Asian Gini index increased from 39.0 in 1988 to 43.3 in 2012. Inequality increased during the initial decade,...
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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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