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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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The speed of justice
Kondylis, Florence; Stein, Mattea - 2018
Can changing the rules of the game affect government performance? This paper studies the impact of a simple procedural reform on the efficiency and quality of adjudication in Senegal. The reform gave judges the duty and powers to conclude pre-trial proceedings within a four-month deadline. The...
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The future of the attorney-client privilege in corporate criminal investigations
Schipani, Cindy A. - 2009
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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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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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The role of credit rating agencies in addressing gaps in micro and small enterprise financing : the case of India
Shankar, Savita - 2019
This paper describes the common financing challenges faced by micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in India and some important measures taken to address them, with a focus on the credit rating scheme implemented in 2000. It examines the usefulness as well as the limitations of the...
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Financing as a supply chain : the capital structure of banks and borrowers
Gornall, William; Strebulaev, Ilya A. - 2013
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Venture capital contracts : a survey of the recent literature
Schertler, Andrea - 2000
This paper surveys empirical and theoretical studies of various control mechanisms embedded in venture capital contracts. These mechanisms mitigate incentive problems and opportunistic behavior arising in the uncertain environment of financing young hightechnology enterprises that predominantly...
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