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The critical success factors for commercialising microfinance instititions in Africa

Kiweu, Josephat Mboya - 2010

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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The microfinance industry in Uganda : sustainability, outreach and regulation

Okumu, Luka Jovita - 2007

Using an econometric approach on panel data collected from 53 microfinance institutions(MFIs) in Uganda over a period …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442229

Factors affecting the growth of microfinance institutions in Namibia

Mulunga, Anna Magano - 2010

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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The sustainability of microfinance in Mozambique

Cumbi, Gonqalo M. T. - 2011

In the microfinance discourse, sustainability can relate to organisational, managerial and financial aspects. However …

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Access to Microfinance: Does it Matter for Profit Efficiency Among Small Scale Rice Farmers in Bangladesh?

Sumelius, John; Islam, K.M. Zahidul; Sipilainen, Timo - 2011

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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Deposit Collectors

Ashraf, Nava; Karlan, Dean S.; Yin, Wesley - 2005

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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Elasticities of Demand for Consumer Credit

Karlan, Dean S.; Zinman, Jonathan - 2005

present estimates of this parameter derived from a randomized trial. The experiment was implemented by a consumer microfinance …

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Observing Unobservables: Identifying Information Asymmetries with a Consumer Credit Field Experiment

Karlan, Dean S.; Zinman, Jonathan - 2005

Information asymmetries are important in theory but difficult to identify in practice. We estimate the empirical importance of adverse selection and moral hazard in a consumer credit market using a new field experiment methodology. We randomized 58,000 direct mail offers issued by a major South...

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Using Experimental Economics to Measure Social Capital and Predict Financial Decisions

Karlan, Dean S. - 2005

whether behavior in the games predicts repayment of loans to a Peruvian group lending microfinance program. Since the …

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The Relative Cost Efficiencies of Commercial Banks, Rural Financial Institutions, and Microfinance Institutions in China

Wu, Ya; Escalante, Cesar L.; Gunter, Lewell F. - 2010

commercial banks, rural financial institutions and microfinance institutions in China. The first pairwise comparison indicated …

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