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Recently, microfinance has come under increasing criticism raising questions of the validity of iconic studies which … have justified the microfinance phenomenon. This paper applies propensity score matching (PSM), which has become widely … rigorous evidence supporting claims that microfinance benefits the poorest especially when targeted on women. After carefully …
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Using two surveys from Bangladesh, this paper provides evidence on the effects of microfinance competition on village …
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This paper evaluates the impact of microfinance on household consumption using a new, large and unique cross …-section data set from Bangladesh. The richness of the data and program eligibility criterion allow the use of a number of non … participants in microfinance. The overall results indicate that the effects of micro loans are not robust across all groups of poor …
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The authors model COVID infections and COVID deaths, both reported and implied, for the 50 U.S. states as well as the District of Columbia, and separately for a sample of 33 countries, as a function of pre-existing circumstances that citizens have no ability to control over the short term. These...
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The purpose of this study is to estimate the effects of Real Effective Exchange Rate (REER) on Sudan trade balance (TB). The present situation is confusing for all in Sudan with discrepancies in market effective foreign currencies and government declared prices. For example, one US$ in the...
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In recent years, the international community has expanded efforts in programme evaluation to improve the accountability of development projects. This paper presents approaches to implementing state-of-the-art evaluations in rural electrification projects, taking into account specific challenges...
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Impact evaluations of development programmes usually focus on a comparison of participants with a control group. However, if the programme generates externalities for non-participants such an approach will capture only part of the programme’s impact. Based on a unique large-scale quantitative...
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What are the socioeconomic effects of foreign aid in developing countries? How effective is aid in promoting social capital? The paper focuses on these questions from an empirical perspective and assesses the casual effect of foreign aid on trust in Uganda. Individuals living in counties that...
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In recent years, the international community has expanded efforts in programme evaluation to improve the accountability of development projects. This paper presents approaches to implementing state-of-the-art evaluations in rural electrification projects, taking into account specific challenges...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008558451
The object of this article is to assess the impact of remittances on household expenditure patterns in Tajikistan. More specifically, the paper applies propensity score matching methods to the 2003 Tajikistan Living Standards Measurement Survey. The results do not provide evidence of a...
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