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Peru's Camisea gas fields hold nearly ninety percent of the country's natural gas reserves. In the 1990s, the … private developers to export forty percent of Camisea's proven gas reserves, equivalent to Peru's one third of the total. This … USD 3.9 billion LNG export project boasts the largest single foreign direct investment in Peru's history. A major …
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El presente documento presenta una medición de impacto del programa de capacitación laboral juvenil PROJoven. Se utilizó información socio-laboral de una muestra de beneficiarios y un conjunto de individuos que conformaron el grupo de control. Esta información fue recogida antes de...
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survey of private bank lending towards developing countries is undertaken in order to identify the private banks most active … an international division of labour in bank lending: within the developing world, banks from OECD countries tend to focus … their credit on specific regions and countries. This mapping of private bank lending also allows us to pinpoint concrete …
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Access to finance remains a challenge for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Argentina. It is a particularly acute problem among newly created SMEs that have a scant credit record and frequently lack collateral. The authors of this paper carried out a pilot test of an innovative psychometric...
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Access to finance remains a challenge for some micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in Peru, particularly … owners seeking a loan from Financiera Confianza, the fourth largest Empresa Financiera in Peru. Applicant responses were … policies to reduce information asymmetry in MSME lending, such a tool could help relieve constraints on MSME finance in Peru. …
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Access to finance remains a challenge for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Argentina. It is a particularly acute problem among newly created SMEs that have a scant credit record and frequently lack collateral. The authors of this paper carried out a pilot test of an innovative psychometric...
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<p>This paper discusses the so-called commercial approach to microfinance under economic and ethical aspects. It first shows how microfinance has developed from a purely welfare-oriented activity to a commercially relevant line of banking business. The background of this stunning success is the...</p>
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Information asymmetries are important in theory but difficult to identify in practice. We estimate the presence and 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...
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Charitable donations by private individuals and firms can help fund the Millennium Development Goals. What are the prospects for increasing donations for international development, whether from small-scale donors, the super-rich (as in the recent gifts by Bill Gates and Ted Turner), or the...
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Can developing countries enhance credibility with international markets by adopting a hard currency peg? In this paper we review the hypothesis that adherence to the gold standard facilitated the access of peripheral countries to European capital markets in the first era of financial...
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