This article investigates the factors affecting access to formal credit by micro and small enterprises in Uganda using … personal and business bank account, and gender of the owner are positively associated with access to formal credit. We also … find that experienced firms are less likely to apply for credit hence reduce the probability to receive formal bank credit …

hazard and (costly) peer monitoring. We compare peer monitoring treatments in which credit is provided to members of the …

provinces. We find that credit service would deteriorate income distribution if it is only available to the rich people. But … when the credit coverage becomes wider, finance may help to reduce income inequality. In addition, finance plays different … roles at different stages of economic development. At the starting stage of economic growth, when physical capital is the …

This article evaluates the impact of a land certification program on credit market outcomes in rural Vietnam. We … hypothesize that the representation of property increases households' participation in formal credit markets. We compare credit …

Based on firm level data from 16 Sub-Saharan African countries we show how three different measures of credit … constraints lead to three different estimates of gender differences in manufacturing firms’ credit situation. Using a perception … based credit constraint measure female owned firms appear relatively more constrained than male owned firms. Using formal …

This article evaluates the impact of a land certification program on credit market outcomes in rural Vietnam. We … hypothesize that the representation of property increases households' participation in formal credit markets. We compare credit …

The impact of group-based credit programs on the nutritional status of children by gender in rural Bangladesh is … evaluated. Lacking exclusion restrictions of the usual sort, the effect of credit program participation by gender of participant … is identified by imposing a factor structure on the regression errors. Women's credit is found to have a large and …

MGNREGA, increases access to financial services and in particular, credit. Results provide evidence that, MGNREGA has been … participants, due to work in MGNREGA acts as a link between longer participation and increased access to formal credit …

foreign portfolio investment (FPI) and "other" foreign investment (OFI) on economic growth using data on 88 countries from … on growth that is somewhat mitigated by initial financial and/or legal development. However, these results are … growth indirectly. FPI does not correlate positively with macroeconomic volatility, but the results indicate that the …