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Measuring the Impact of Microfinance on Child Health Outcomes in Indonesia
DeLoach, Stephen B.; Lamanna, Erika - In: World Development 39 (2011) 10, pp. 1808-1819
Microfinance has become a staple of modern development policy as a means to facilitate anything from gender equality to … the presence of microfinance institutions in communities significantly improves the health of children. …
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Does Commercial Microfinance Belong to the Financial Sector? Lessons from the Stock Market
Brière, Marie; Szafarz, Ariane - In: World Development 67 (2015) C, pp. 110-125
This paper is the first to draw a global picture of worldwide microfinance equity by taking full advantage of daily … quoted prices. We revisit previous findings showing that investors should consider microfinance as a self-standing sector …. Our results are threefold. First, microfinance has become less risky and more closely correlated with the financial sector …
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NGOs and the Political Empowerment of Poor People in Rural Bangladesh: Cultivating the Habits of Democracy?
Kabeer, Naila; Mahmud, Simeen; Isaza Castro, Jairo G. - In: World Development 40 (2012) 10, pp. 2044-2062
in the increasing homogenization of NGOs around the delivery of services, primarily microfinance services, and its shift …
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Power, Ownership and Tourism in Small Islands: Evidence from Indonesia
Hampton, Mark P.; Jeyacheya, Julia - In: World Development 70 (2015) C, pp. 481-495
This paper examines the political economy of tourism development in islands and uses Gili Trawangan, Indonesia as a …
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The Impact of the Strategic Sale of Restructured Banks: Evidence from Indonesia
Parinduri, Rasyad A.; Riyanto, Yohanes E. - In: World Development 40 (2012) 3, pp. 446-457
. The Government of Indonesia implemented such a policy as part of a bank restructuring in the aftermath of the 1998 banking …
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Impacts of Aid-Funded Technical Assistance Programs: Firm-Level Evidence from the Indonesian Foundry Industry
Todo, Yasuyuki - In: World Development 39 (2011) 3, pp. 351-362
Summary This study examines the effect of Japanese aid-funded technical assistance programs on the Indonesian foundry industry funded, applying difference-in-differences propensity score matching estimation to a unique firm-level dataset. The major finding is that the average effect of the aid...
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Governance Institutions, Resource Rights Regimes, and the Informal Mining Sector: Regulatory Complexities in Indonesia
Spiegel, Samuel J. - In: World Development 40 (2012) 1, pp. 189-205
in Indonesia. It focuses on the implications of governance “decentralization” processes and mining regulation reforms for …
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Administrative Overspending in Indonesian Districts: The Role of Local Politics
Sjahrir, Bambang Suharnoko; Kis-Katos, Krisztina; … - In: World Development 59 (2014) C, pp. 166-183
We analyze the determinants of the excessive administrative spending of local governments in Indonesia. In an …
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Geography and the Determinants of Firm Exports in Indonesia
Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés; Tselios, Vassilis; Winkler, … - In: World Development 44 (2013) C, pp. 225-240
This paper uses data from the Indonesian manufacturing census in order to uncover the determinants of firm exports over the period 1990–2005. We examine to what extent differences in firm export propensity and intensity are a consequence of firm-level (microeconomic), of place-based...
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Ethnic Diversity and Social Capital in Indonesia
Mavridis, Dimitris - In: World Development 67 (2015) C, pp. 376-395
This paper uses the variations of ethnic diversity between districts in Indonesia to show that diversity leads to lower …
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