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Coping with Drought by Adjusting Land Tenancy Contracts: A Model and Evidence from Rural Morocco

Kusunose, Yoko; Lybbert, Travis J. - In: World Development 61 (2014) C, pp. 114-126

We explore vulnerability to drought in Morocco by analyzing household coping responses to a severe drought. We find …

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Does Economic Upgrading Lead to Social Upgrading in Global Production Networks? Evidence from Morocco

Rossi, Arianna - In: World Development 46 (2013) C, pp. 223-233

This paper contributes to the global production networks (GPNs) literature by analyzing the relationship between economic upgrading (increase in the value added of production) and social upgrading (improvements for workers in GPNs). It does so by drawing on primary data from Moroccan garment...

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How to Deliver Foreign Aid? The Case of Projects Governed by the Spanish International Agency

Hermano, Víctor; Martín-Cruz, Natalia - In: World Development 43 (2013) C, pp. 298-314

cost economics, this article examines 95 international aid projects delivered in Morocco and Ecuador by the Spanish …

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Adding Value to Randomization with Qualitative Analysis: The Case of Microcredit in Rural Morocco

Morvant-Roux, Solène; Guérin, Isabelle; Roesch, Marc; … - In: World Development 56 (2014) C, pp. 302-312

This paper analyzes microcredit demand and use to draw lessons on how households appropriate microcredit services. It introduces qualitative analysis to a randomized study. Findings suggest that microcredit demand and use is shaped not only by agro-ecological conditions, but by two major...

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Practice What You Preach: Microfinance Business Models and Operational Efficiency

Bos, Jaap W.B.; Millone, Matteo - In: World Development 70 (2015) C, pp. 28-42

The microfinance sector has room for pure for-profit microfinance institutions (MFIs), non-profit organizations, and …

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A New Index of the Business Environment for Microfinance

Cull, Robert; Navajas, Sergio; Nishida, Ippei; Zeiler, … - In: World Development 70 (2015) C, pp. 357-388

This paper describes a new index of the quality of the business environment for microfinance institutions (the Global … Microscope on the Microfinance Business Environment). Regressions are used to validate the index by linking it and its sub …-components to microfinance outcomes. The main findings are that the components of the index related to the supporting institutional …

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Over-Indebtedness in Microfinance – An Empirical Analysis of Related Factors on the Borrower Level

Schicks, Jessica - In: World Development 54 (2014) C, pp. 301-324

This paper analyzes the over-indebtedness of microborrowers in Ghana from a customer protection perspective. It measures over-indebtedness as a subjective indicator based on loan-related sacrifices that borrowers report. It finds that male microborrowers are more likely to be over-indebted. So...

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The Impact of Governance and Institutional Quality on MFI Outreach and Financial Performance in Sub-Saharan Africa

Barry, Thierno Amadou; Tacneng, Ruth - In: World Development 58 (2014) C, pp. 1-20

, this study shows that NGOs are the best conduits of microfinance in SSA. …

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Is Micro too Small? Microcredit vs. SME Finance

Bauchet, Jonathan; Morduch, Jonathan - In: World Development 43 (2013) C, pp. 288-297

Microcredit and small and medium enterprise (SME) finance are often pitched as alternative strategies to create employment opportunities in low-income communities. So far, though, little is known about how employment patterns compare. We integrate evidence from three surveys to show that,...

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Empowerment Through Microfinance: The Relation Between Loan Cycle and Level of Empowerment

Weber, Olaf; Ahmad, Adnan - In: World Development 62 (2014) C, pp. 75-87

Does microfinance support the empowerment of female borrowers? Results of studies analyzing microfinance and … empowerment delivered mixed results. In order to explore whether microfinance influences empowerment, the paper compares women in … higher loan cycles of a Pakistani microfinance institution with those in the first loan cycle regarding their empowerment …

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