trials of microfinance offerings (Morduch 1998; Ferrari 2008; Hoque 2008). Financial dealings within this context are known … to be complex (Matin, Hulme et al. 1999; Rutherford 2002) and, despite the rapid growth of microfinance, these financial …

Verbreitete Armut ist nach wie vor eines der zentralen Probleme der arabischen Entwicklungsländer, das nicht nur auf …, lack the necessary will to alleviate poverty or to re-distribute income vertically. They are much more concerned about …

electricity industry has indeed lessen poverty levels in urban Bolivia by making this utility more accessible to larger segments …This paper takes stock with the results of utility privatization in Bolivia. This paper deals with the process of … is mostly interested in exploring whether the reformation of this industry contributed to lessen poverty levels and …

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 …

borrowing groups of the microfinance institutions Constanta (Georgia) and FORA (Russia), this study describes to what extent … borrowers behave as predicted by theory. According to the empirical results, the assortative matching brings informational … individual lending mechanism - based on the experience of 130 borrowers of the Microfinance Bank of Georgia – shows that there …

results into the real microcredit world.Next, this paper outlines the impact of microfinance on the income level of the poor … can solve two major problems in microfinance, adverse selection by assortative matching and moral hazard by monitoring …This paper mainly focuses on finding optimal strategies for the development of microfinance in Korea and on predicting …

how microcredit can provide access to hope. This paper explores the impact of world poverty on the world’s poorest of the …Microcredit, or small, short-term loans to the very poor, can help to bring about wholesale changes not only in … the community in a myriad of other ways. The core concept of microcredit was built upon the belief that credit is a …

The thesis addresses the question of how poverty can be overcome by education. The starting point is the following type … of poverty trap: poverty forces parents to send their children to work to secure the survival of the household. Due to … growth model such a type of poverty trap is established as a locally stable steady state. Imperfect capital markets prevent …