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A Poverty-Sensitive Scorecard to Prioritize Lending and Grant Allocation : Evidence from Central America
Hernandez, Manuel A. - 2016
Development projects are generally subject to a potential tradeoff between sustainability and poverty reduction. Grants are also commonly assigned without a standardized criterion. This paper proposes an innovative scoring tool that combines both a risk and poverty scorecard to prioritize...
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Microfinance for poverty alleviation : do transnational initiatives overlook fundamental questions of competition and intermediation?
Arp, Frithjof; Ardisa, Alvin; Ardisa, Alviani - 2017
Numerous microfinance initiatives around the world aim to alleviate poverty in developing countries. However, debate … community, which contribute about $9.4 billion to microfinance funding. In this policy-oriented article we aggregate findings … from two studies in Indonesia that help explain why moneylending can still thrive when low-interest microfinance is widely …
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Mission drift in microcredit and microfinance institution incentives
Biancini, Sara; Ettinger, David; Venet, Baptiste - 2017 - This version: January 2017
We analyze the relationship between Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) and external donors, with the aim of contributing … to the debate on "mission drift" in microfinance. We assume that both the donor and the MFI are pro-poor, possibly at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011602702
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When pro-poor microcredit institutions favor richer borrowers : a moral hazard story
Biancini, Sara; Ettinger, David; Venet, Baptiste - 2021
We suggest an explanation for the existence of "mission drift", the tendency for Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012433762
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Empirical Investigation on Repayment Performance of Amanah Ikhtiar Malaysia’s Hardcore Poor Clients
Al Mamun, Abdullah - 2011
This study employs a cross sectional design with stratified random sampling method to examine the factors that are associated with repayment problem encountered by clients of Amanah Ikhtiar Malaysia (AIM)'s microcredit program. Findings of this study show that fungibility issue, number of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119452
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Investigating the Effect of the Utilization of Microcredit on Hardcore Poor Clients Household Income and Assets
Al Mamun, Abdullah - 2014
The objective of this study is to examine how Amanah Ikhtiar Malaysia (AIM)'s clients have been using the microcredit received and the effect of microcredit utilization on household income and asset. To obtain the above mentioned objectives, this study employed a cross sectional stratified...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013067260
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Microcredit Institutions and the Battle Against Poverty : The Pan-Arab Enda Initiative in Tunisia
Trabelsi, Mohamed Ali - 2014
The aim of this paper is to show, jointly by means of theoretical and empirical studies and through the Pan-Arab Enda case installed in Tunisia, that the adoption of a policy of credit rationing makes it possible to cure the problems of information asymmetry and to ensure the performance of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013067710
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Escaping from the poverty trap with social innovation : a social microcredit programme in Hungary
Molnár, György; Havas, Attila - 2019
This paper describes a Hungarian social microcredit programme, called Kiútprogram and discusses the major lessons drawn from its operation. It was launched some 10 years ago as an adaptation of the Grameen model to the Hungarian circumstances to decrease the level of prejudice and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012016466
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Escaping From the Poverty Trap With Social Innovation : A Social Microcredit Programme in Hungary
Molnár, György - 2020
This paper describes a Hungarian social microcredit programme, called Kiútprogram and discusses the major lessons drawn from its operation. It was launched some 10 years ago as an adaptation of the Grameen model to the Hungarian circumstances to decrease the level of prejudice and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012849179
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Risk management among the poor : the case of microfinancial services
Arun, Thankom; Bendig, Mirko - 2010
This paper argues that the level of financial services provision determines the risk management strategies among the poor. The paper estimates the determinants of the household's use of one, two or all three types of microfinancial services applying ordered probit models and additionally probit...
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