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The Role of Micro-financing in Rural Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries
Juanah, Momoh - Hochschule <Wismar> / Fachbereich Wirtschaft - 2005
some measures whichcan enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of microfinance as an instrumentfor reducing rural poverty … general, rural poverty in particular and microfinance services andinstitutions in the developing countries (using the cases of … selected countries),the increase in popularity of microfinance as an instrument for addressing theproblem of rural poverty in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005863273
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Repayment Frequency in Micro nance Contracts with Present-Biased Borrowers
Fischer, Greg; Ghatak, Maitreesh - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2010
This paper analyzes the theoretical underpinnings of high-frequency repayment, a featurein nearly all microfi…nance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008860716
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Mutual guarantee institutions and small business finance
Columba, Francesco; Gambacorta, Leonardo; Mistrulli, … - Bank for International Settlements / Monetary and …
A large body of literature has shown that small firms experience difficulties in accessing the credit market due to informational asymmetries. Banks can overcome these asymmetries through relationship lending, or at least mitigate their effects by asking for collateral. Small firms, especially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009138470
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MICROFINANCE, COMMERCIALISATION AND ETHICS
Schmidt, Reinhard H. - 2009
This paper discusses the so-called commercial approach to microfinance undereconomic and ethical aspects. It first … shows how microfinance has developed from a purelywelfare-oriented activity to a commercially relevant line of banking … business. Thebackground of this stunning success is the almost universal adoption of the commercialapproach to microfinance in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005866787
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Village Funds and Access to Finance in Rural Thailand
Menkhoff, Lukas; Rungruxsirivorn, Ornsiri - Universität <Hannover> / Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche … - 2009
This paper examines whether recently introduced “village funds”, one of the largestmicrofinance programs ever implemented, improve access to finance. Village funds areanalyzed in a cross-sectional approach in relation to competing financial institutions. We find,first, that they reach the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005867315
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Spanning the Chasm: Uniting Theory and Empirics in Microfinance Research
Fischer, Greg; Ghatak, Maitreesh - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2010
Microfinance continues to play an ever increasing role in approaches topoverty alleviation around the world. Yet … mystery. From its inception, microfinance generated agreat deal of interest from economic theorists. Influential papers from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008860681
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Women and Finance in Rural andUrban Sudan: A Case Study inGreater Omdurman and Khartoum
Schultz, Ulrike; Makkawi, Asia; Al Fatih, Tayseer - Universität <Berlin, Humboldt-Universität> / … - 2008
In the paper it is inquired how Sudanese women use the financial institutions in order toorganise their lives between market, household, and the community. The results arebased on interviews and observations done in two villages in the surroundings ofOmdurman (Al Gharaza and Sanahir), displaced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009302559
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DEFINING POVERTY LINES AS A FRACTION OFCENTRAL TENDENCY
Muller, Christophe - University <Nottingham> / Department of Economics - 2000
measured by the Gini coeffcient isconstant, dening the poverty line as a fraction of a central tendency of theliving standard … distribution restricts the evolution of the poverty measuresto be stable... …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005869058
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Ownership Characteristics and Access to Finance:Evidence from a Survey of Large Privatised Companiesin Hungary and Poland.
Isachenkova, Natalia; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - Centre for the Study of Economic and Social Change in … - 2003
We examine financial constraints and forms of finance used for investment, byanalysing survey data on 157 large privatised companies in Hungary and Poland for theperiod 1998 – 2000. The Bayesian analysis using Gibbs sampling is carried out toobtain inferences about the sample companies’...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005868232
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Critical Issues in Microbusiness Finance and the Role of Donors
Schmidt, Reinhard H.; Zeitinger, Claus-Peter - 1997
In the early 1990s, a consensus emerged among the leading experts in the field of small and micro business finance. It is based on three elements: The focus of projects should be on improving the entire financial sector of a given developing country; a commercial approach should be adopted,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005840406