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Intra-household efficiency: An experimental study from Ethiopia
Kebede, Bereket; Tarazona, Marcela; Munro, Alistair; … - 2013
An experimental design using treatments of a voluntary contribution mechanism is used to test household efficiency …. Efficiency is decisively rejected in all treatments contrary to the assumption of most household models. Information on initial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319842
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In-depth Analysis on the Access to and Suitability of the Loans
Manlagñit, Ma. Chelo V. - 2004
effects of microfinance. Using descriptive and statistical analyses, results show that the effects of credit in household … community oriented financial intermediary (COFI) and reinforces the significance of using a household approach in evaluating the … smoothing their consumptions. It has also been shown that the access to COFI loans is relatively easy for the client household …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429725
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Extent of Asset Accumulation of the Households
Manlagñit, Ma. Chelo V. - 2004
This paper examines the extent of asset accumulation and saving of the households from the credit they obtained from community-oriented financial intermediaries (COFIs and other financial sources. In the process, this paper also investigates how the government can assist in asset development,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429726
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Impact of Microfinance on Rural Households in the Philippines
Orbeta, Aniceto C.; Dingcong, Clarence G.; Kondo, Toshio; … - 2008
quasi-experimental design with incoming clients of randomly selected participating microfinance institutions as the … recommend that for microfinance programs to be effective as a poverty-alleviation tool there is a need to review and constantly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429879
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Yksityisen kulutuksen ennustemalleja
Peussa, Aleksandr - 2014
The share of private consumption in gross domestic product is significant; therefore, private consumption has a great influence on economic growth, which makes it a major concept in economics. The purpose of the paper is to estimate and evaluate different forecasting models for private...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012037654
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The link between international remittances and private interhousehold transfers
Beyene, Berhe Mekonnen - 2012
households. The effect of remittances on interhousehold transfers is empirically investigated using an urban household survey … from Ethiopia. Consistent with the prediction of the model, remittance has a strong positive effect on the amount of … transfer given, controlling for total household income and other covariates. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330218
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Determinants of internal and international migration in Ethiopia
Beyene, Berhe Mekonnen - 2011
I studied the determinants of migration from urban Ethiopia to other countries, to rural areas and to other urban areas … household members abroad. Human capital variables like age and education matter only for the two internal migrations. While the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330236
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The effects of international remittances on poverty and inequality in Ethiopia
Beyene, Berhe Mekonnen - 2012
The paper studies the effects of international remittances on poverty and inequality in Ethiopia using an urban … household survey from 2004. In order to identify the effects of remittances on poverty and inequality, counterfactual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330245
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The structure and performance of Ethiopia's financial sector in the pre- and post-reform period with a special focus on banking
Geda, Alemayehu - 2006
Since 1992 Ethiopia has been engaged in liberalizing its financial sector. The hallmark of the strategy is gradualism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333062
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AIDS and dualism: Ethiopia's burden under rational expectations
Bell, Clive; Koukoumelis, Anastasios - 2009
An AIDS epidemic threatens Ethiopia with a long wave of premature adult mortality, and thus with an enduring setback to … possible in view of Ethiopia's poverty and high background adult mortality, it does cause a permanent, downward displacement of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266655