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Companies making large investments in information systems anticipate positive impacts on their organisation. Measuring information systems effectiveness or success has been an important criterion for practitioners and researchers in justifying the associated investment, both pre- and...
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Twenty-five years ago, the International Institute of Forecasters was established “to bridge the gap between theory and practice.” Its primary vehicle was the Journal of Forecasting and is now the International Journal of Forecasting. The Institute emphasizes empirical comparisons of...
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experiments are supplied for download. This material facilitates the understanding of the published articles and the replication …
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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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present estimates of this parameter derived from a randomized trial. The experiment was implemented by a consumer microfinance …
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