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Financial literacy
Cohen, Monique - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010
, the microfinance industry is giving more attention to building their customers’ financial capabilities, designing products …
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Constrained gazelles : high potentials in West Africa's informal economy
Grimm, Michael; Knorringa, Peter; Lay, Jann - World Bank Group - 2012
The informal sector is typically characterized as being very heterogeneous and possibly composed of two clearly distinct segments, sometimes called the lower and upper tier. However, empirical evidence shows that even among lower tier entrepreneur's profitability can be quite high. The authors...
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Financial inclusion - G20 initiatives and the role of the Bank of Italy
Gomel, Giorgio; Bernasconi, Fabio; Cartechini, … - Banca d'Italia - 2011
Financial exclusion concerns 2.5 billion individuals and more than 450 million enterprises. The G20 countries are committed to the reduction of this phenomenon. The Bank of Italy has a fundamental role in the field of financial inclusion, both on a national and an international scale through...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009193018
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Keeping it simple: financial literacy and rules of thumb
Drexler, Alejandro; Fischer, Gregory; Schoar, Antoinette - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010
Individuals and business owners engage in an increasingly complex array of financial decisions that are critical for their success and well-being. Yet a growing literature documents that in both developed and developing countries, a large fraction of the population is unprepared to make these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884647
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Keeping it Simple: Financial Literacy and Rules of Thumb
Drexler, Alejandro; Fischer, Greg; Schoar, Antoinette S - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
Individuals and business owners engage in an increasingly complex array of financial decisions that are critical for their success and well-being. Yet a growing literature documents that in both developed and developing countries, a large fraction of the population is unprepared to make these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008611017
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Agricultural Credit - Accomplishments and Challenges
Subbarao, Duvvuri - eSocialSciences - 2012
Agriculture’s share in GDP is less than 15 per cent but it still remains the direct domain of over half of the population whose economic prospects are linked to the performance of agriculture. There are many schemes taken by NABARD to improve the agricultural sector but there ahead which...
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Microempresa: Informe de avances: Volumen 6: Nº 2: Enero, 2004 Title: Microenterprise Development Review: Volume 6 : No. 2 : January, 2004
Inter-American Development Bank; Banco Interamericano …; … - 2004
funds to finance microfinance. An IDB study of second-tier financing programs for microfinance sheds light on the promise …
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Formando microempresarias: los servicios de desarrollo de negocio para reforzar el impacto de los microcréditos
Artiñano, Olga Biosca - Departamento de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad … - 2014
Recent microfinance crises have put into question the effectiveness of microfinance for poverty alleviation. In this … context, non-financial services supplied by microfinance institutions re-emerge as a mechanism to strengthen microfinance … impact of an internationally standardized business development program supplied by a Mexican microfinance institution to …
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Teaching Entrepreneurship: Impact of Business Training on Microfinance Clients and Institutions
Valdivia, Martin; Karlan, Dean - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2006
growing number of microfinance organizations are attempting to build the human capital of micro-entrepreneurs in order to …, practices and revenues. The microfinance institution also had direct benefits through higher repayment and client retention …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005357758
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Business Training for Microfinance Clients: How it Matters and for Whom?
Frisancho, Veronica; Karlan, Dean; Valdivia, Martin - Partenariat en Politiques Économiques (PEP), … - 2008
retention rates for the microfinance institution, improved business knowledge, and practices. More importantly, average business …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005696352