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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 … contracts better fit to businesses with a dynamic perspective, joint-liability approaches better fit to rather static businesses …
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This paper investigates core stability of cooperative, TU games via a fuzzy extension of the totally balanced cover of a TU game. The stability of the core of the fuzzy extension of a game, the concave extension, is shown to reflect the core stability of the original game and vice versa....
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ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Uncertainty of continued donor funding poses a risk to microfinance operations worldwide, and … thisstudy explores the circumstances under which African microfinance institutions (MFIs) will considercommercial funding as a … microfinance institutions grow, they increasingly findthemselves in need of additional capital to finance expansion of services to …
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Using an econometric approach on panel data collected from 53 microfinance institutions(MFIs) in Uganda over a period …
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growth and poverty alleviation. Microfinance is seen as one of the effective tools that can address poverty alleviation by … engaging the poor in sustainable economic activities. Microfinance services have existed in Namibia since the late 1990s, yet … they have not attained growth.The main providers of microfinance services consist mainly of Micro-lenders, Non …
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In the microfinance discourse, sustainability can relate to organisational, managerial and financial aspects. However …
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This paper measures profit efficiency and examines the effect of access to microfinance on theperformance of rice firms … models. After effectively correcting forselectivity bias, the mean profit efficiency of the microfinance borrowers and non …
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Informal lending and savings institutions exist around the world, and often include regular door-to-door deposit collection of cash. Some banks have adopted similar services in order to expand access to banking services in areas that lack physical branches. Using a randomized control trial, we...
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