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The impact of group-based credit programs on the nutritional status of children by gender in rural Bangladesh is evaluated. Lacking exclusion restrictions of the usual sort, the effect of credit program participation by gender of participant is identified by imposing a factor structure on the...
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in poverty transition -- Diversification of income and employment : how does microfinance affect agriculture …
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, income, and assets. The revolving fund was launched in 2001 when the Government of Thailand promised to provide a million …
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Microfinance is often criticized for not adequately addressing seasonality and hard-core poverty. In Bangladesh, a program known as PRIME was introduced in 2006 to address both concerns. Unlike regular microfinance, PRIME introduces a microfinance scheme that offers a flexible repayment schedule...
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Competing theories increasingly support the positive role of social capital in small loan default costs of group lending; at the same time, potential group collusion may increase loan delinquencies. Findings from the available literature are mixed on the role of the various attributes of group...
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"The Impact of Microcredit on the Poor in Bangladesh: Revisiting the Evidence," by David Roodman and Jonathan Morduch …?" that microcredit for women had significant, favorable effects on poverty reduction. In this paper the authors show that …
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Over the past 20 years, Bangladesh has witnessed strong competition among microfinance institutions. Using program-level panel data from 2005-2010, this paper studies the microfinance institutions' recent competitive roles in their pricing of products, targeting strategies and portfolio shifts,...
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Microcredit programs in Bangladesh have experienced spectacular growth in recent years, with a growing number of … borrowers availing credit from multiple microcredit agencies. There is a growing concern that if there are not sufficient … repay. A household may be considered over-indebted, for example, if its debt liability exceeds 40 percent of its income or …
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