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countries after an aggregate income shock. The analysis is based on a data set in which the customer data of the microfinance … microfinance institution. The results support the hypothesis that especially transaction lending contributes to the problem of …
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borrowing groups of the microfinance institutions Constanta (Georgia) and FORA (Russia), this study describes to what extent … individual lending mechanism - based on the experience of 130 borrowers of the Microfinance Bank of Georgia – shows that there …
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This paper measures profit efficiency and examines the effect of access to microfinance on theperformance of rice firms … in Bangladesh. An extended Cobb-Douglas stochastic frontier profit function wasused to assess profit efficiency and … profit loss of rice farmers in Bangladesh in a survey data of 360 farmsthroughout the 2008-2009 growing seasons. Model …
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This thesis gives a voice to the chronically poor people of rural Bangladesh, enabling them to tell their own stories … the market (Chambers 1995; Chakravarti 2006; Duflo 2006). Bangladesh was chosen for this study because it is typical of … trials of microfinance offerings (Morduch 1998; Ferrari 2008; Hoque 2008). Financial dealings within this context are known …
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The microcredit program in Bangladesh is a unique innovation of credit delivery designed to enhance the income … major microcredit institutions in Bangladesh. Alongside the borrowers, data have also been collected from non-borrowers of …
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markets using a linked emic approach. Bangladesh is the initial focus for the study which will be replicated in other emerging …
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facilities to transfer money back to their family in Bangladesh. In June 2007, the company went into liquidation owing nearly 2 … million pounds to the public, the majority of whom were from the Sylhet region of Bangladesh. …
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The purpose of this paper is to examine the growth of a new industry - the microcredit industry. It is an interesting story because it is an important new area in the field of economic development. Microcredit itself has existed for centuries. Microcredit is the business of making small loans to...
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in Bangladesh. The findings suggest that the current approach to addressing gender is often weak and without adequate …
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