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Why isn't there more financial intermediation in developing countries?
Conning, Jonathan; Kevane, Michael - 2002
This paper proposes to organize thinking about the opportunities for improving and extending financial markets and safety nets for the poor, by focusing on factors that may explain why the linkage of local financial networks and safety nets with the larger economy often fails or is incomplete....
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Do flexible repayment schedules improve the impact of microcredit? Evidence from a randomized evaluation in rural India
Czura, Kristina - 2015
Microcredit institutions typically apply rigid and fixed repayment schedules when disbursing loans in order to reduce transaction costs, simplify procedures, and inculcate fiscal discipline for better repayment behavior. Microcredit clients, however, often have neither smooth income nor singular...
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Microcredit and survival microenterprises: The role of market structure
Viswanath, P. V. - In: International Journal of Financial Studies 6 (2018) 1, pp. 1-25
. While microfinance is supposed to address this problem through the promotion of viable businesses, it has not been very … microfinance institutions (MFIs), there have been very few that look at market conditions as an input into the success of micro …
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Microfinance and the decision to invest in children's education
Viswanath, P. V. - In: International Journal of Financial Studies 6 (2018) 1, pp. 1-20
Although one of the primary objectives of microfinance has been the reduction of poverty through the provision of … microfinance, there may be an indirect positive impact through the effect of microcredit availability on families' decisions to … availability on education expenditures for children of clients of a South Indian microfinance institution. I first look at some …
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Microcredit and price competition: Standardize to differentiate
Casini, Paolo - 2014
Microfinance institutions, despite the presence of competition and informational asymmetries, typically offer a limited … consequences in terms of strategic interaction and borrower welfare. We model an oligopolistic market in which Microfinance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010397130
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Competitive Microcredit Markets: Differentiation and ex-ante Incentives for Multiple Borrowing
Casini, Paolo - 2010
We analyze an oligopolistic microcredit market characterized by asymmetric infirmation and institutions that can offer only one type of contract. We study the effects of competition on contract choice when small entrepreneurs can borrow from more than one institution due to the absence of credit...
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Where and when to pray? Optimal mass planning and efficient resource allocation in the church
Martin, Alexander; Weibelzahl, Martin - 2014
We will present a theoretical model for an integrated planning of Eucharistic masses and Liturgies of the Word assuming different priests, assistant priests and lay persons. This all-integer vector optimization problem can be seen as an economic, spacial and inter-temporal resource allocation...
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Formal credit institutions in agriculture of Kazakhstan (micro-econometric analysis)
Gaisina, Sholpan - 2010
The financing of agricultural producers is one of the most acute problems along the entire scope of economic reforms in Kazakhstan. The issue is: What kind of financial sources could maintain the development of agricultural production? Internal sources such as profit, depreciation capital, and...
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Leveraging SME finance through value chains in landlocked CAREC countries: Overview
Morgan, Peter J.; Nurgaliyeva, Akerke; Kydyrbayev, Dossym - 2019
This study takes stock of the challenges faced by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the CAREC landlocked economies in terms of their access to finance resulting from demand-side, supply-side and institutional constraints. This includes identifying cultural, procedural, institutional...
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Savings groups reduce vulnerability, but have mixed effects on financial inclusion
Frisancho Robles, Verónica; Valdivia, J. Martín - 2020
microfinance lenders among the unbanked. …
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