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Over-Indebtedness Among Microfinance Borrowers : A Poverty Line Based Approach
Puliyakot, Sunil - 2017
The current literature of over-indebtedness in general and microfinance in particular suffers from a serious weakness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012941258
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Contracting Constraints, Credit Markets and Economic Development
Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2003
This paper begins by summarizing the micro-evidence on credit markets from a large number of studies from all over the world, with the goal of identifying a number of stylized facts. We argue that, in particular, the evidence strongly suggests that for poor people in developing countries,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014117591
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Contracting Constraints, Credit Markets and Economic Development
Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2003
This paper begins by summarizing the micro-evidence on credit markets from a large number of studies from all over the world, with the goal of identifying a number of stylized facts. We argue that, in particular, the evidence strongly suggests that for poor people in developing countries,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014118309
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Microfinance and entrepreneurial finance : a review and future research agenda
Kimmitt, Jonathan - In: De Gruyter handbook of entrepreneurial finance, (pp. 153-170). 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013202005
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Social capital : does it matter in a microfinance contract?
Rathore, Bhawani Singh - In: International journal of social economics 42 (2015) 11, pp. 1024-1034
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412635
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Optimal group size with joint liability group lending strategy
Mukherjee, Shirsendu; Bhattacharya, Sukanta - In: Indian growth and development review 8 (2015) 1, pp. 2-18
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011414613
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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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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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Poverty and wellbeing impacts of microfinance : what do we know?
Maîtrot, Mathilde; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel - 2017
Over the last 35 years, microfinance has been generally regarded as an effective policy tool in the fight against … address this question, we conduct a systematic review of the quantitative literature of microfinance's impacts in the … the limited comparability of outcomes and the heterogeneity of microfinance-lending technologies, together with a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011776445
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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