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Finance for micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises in India : sources and challenges
Singh, Charan; Wasdani, Kishinchand Poornima - 2016
Finance for micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) has been a concern for all stakeholders including … challenges faced by MSMEs in sourcing of finance during different stages of their life cycle. This study is a first … limitation in the identification and utilization of sources of finance. Data was collected through personal interviews using a …
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Credit Surety Fund : a credit innovation for micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises in the Philippines
Maningo, Gary V. - 2016
of these enterprises is their difficulty in accessing finance from banks and other financial institutions. The Credit …
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The microfinance alphabet
Hudon, Marek; Labie, Marc; Szafarz, Ariane - 2019
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Micro-equity for microenterprises
De Mel, Suresh; McKenzie, David J.; Woodruff, Christopher - 2019
Many microenterprises in developing countries have high returns to capital, but also face risky revenue streams. In principle, equity offers several advantages over debt when financing investments of this nature, but the use of equity in practice has been largely limited to investments in much...
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Interest rate caps : the theory and the practice
Ferrari, Aurora; Masetti, Oliver; Ren, Jiemin - 2018
Ceilings on lending rates remain a widely used policy tool that is intended to lower the overall cost of credit or protect consumers from exorbitant rates. Interest rate caps come in many forms and scopes and, according to their rationale, ceilings can affect a small segment or the overall...
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Factors affecting access to formal credit by micro and small enterprises in Uganda
Buyinza, Faisal; Tibaingana, Anthony; Mutenyo, John - 2018
This article investigates the factors affecting access to formal credit by micro and small enterprises in Uganda using the Gender Enterprise Survey that was funded by the IDRC. The study employed a probit model. The findings show that firm sales, owner's education level, belonging to a business...
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Sanitation and credit constraints : the role of labelled microcredit in India's Swacch Bharat Mission subsidy scheme
Augsburg, Britta; Caeyers, Bet; Giunti, Sara; Malde, Bansi - 2022
Remuneration-post-verification subsidies and microcredit have been postulated as potential solutions to imperfect capital markets and commitment problems that impede lumpy human capital investments, but little is known about the merit of combining these financing mechanisms. We draw on a cluster...
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Effects of interest rate caps on microcredit: evidence from a natural experiment in Bolivia
Roa, María José; Villegas, Alejandra; Garrón, Ignacio - 2020
This paper evaluates the imposition of caps on microcredit lending rates through directed credit policies for productive sectors. This financial inclusion intervention provides a unique quasi-experiment, allowing to estimate its causal effect following a difference-in-differences analysis. Our...
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Serving the underserved : microcredit as a pathway to commercial banks
Agarwal, Sumit; Rusuhuzwa, Thomas Kigabo; Minoiu, Camelia; … - 2021
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Serving the underserved : microcredit as a pathway to commercial banks
Agarwal, Sumit; Rusuhuzwa, Thomas Kigabo; Minoiu, Camelia; … - 2021
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