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Does microfinance program innovation reduce income inequality? : cross-country and panel data analysis
Miled, Kamel Bel Hadj; Younsi, Moheddine; Landolsi, Monia - In: Journal of innovation and entrepreneurship : JIE 11 (2022), pp. 1-15
This paper uses cross-country and panel data set to test the significance of microfinance on income inequality … microfinance in reducing inequality at the macro level. Moreover, our results suggest that microfinance loans can lead to improve … recommendations to policymakers, as they could generate suitable strategies to consider microfinance institutions as a more popular …
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When Pro-Poor Microcredit Institutions Favor Richer Borrowers - A Moral Hazard Story
Biancini, Sara; Venet, Baptiste; Ettinger, David - 2021
We suggest an explanation for the existence of “mission drift”, the tendency for Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013245624
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Financial inclusion: new measurement and cross-country impact assessment
Park, Cyn-Young; Mercado, Rogelio V. <Jr.> - 2018
This paper introduces a new index of financial inclusion for 151 economies using principal component analysis to compute weights for aggregating nine indicators of access, availability, and usage. It then assesses the impact of financial inclusion on poverty and income inequality. The results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011808290
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How does financialization affect functional income distribution? : a theoretical clarification and empirical assessment
Köhler, Karsten; Guschanski, Alexander; Stockhammer, … - In: Socio-economic review 22 (2024) 1, pp. 449-474
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Finance-growth nexus and banking efficiency : the impact of microfinance institutions
Abrar, Afsheen; Hasan, Iftekhar; Kabir, Rezaul - In: Journal of economics & business 114 (2021), pp. 1-19
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012807041
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Does financial development reduce income inequality and poverty? : evidence from emerging countries
Seven, Unal; Coskun, Yener - In: Emerging markets review 26 (2016), pp. 34-63
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Ireland's peculiar microfinance revolution, c. 1836-1845
McLaughlin, Eoin; Pecchenino, Rowena - 2019
In the decade before the famine, Ireland experienced a boom in Microfinance Institutions (MFIs). This paper analyses … the poor law in 1838. Many contemporary writers saw microfinance as a complex tax avoidance/reduction scheme that could …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012007230
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Le développement face à la pauvreté : réseau analyse économique et développement
Mourji, Fouzi (contributor) - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003277795
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Multidimensional targeting and evaluation : a general framework with an application to a poverty program in Bangladesh
Robano, Virginia; Smith, Stephen C. - 2013
Many poverty, safety net, training, and other social programs utilize multiple screening criteria to determine eligibility. We apply recent advances in multidimensional measurement analysis to develop a straightforward method for summarizing changes in groups of eligibility (screening)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010125890
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The distributional impact of access to finance on poverty : evidence from selected countries in Sub-Saharan Africa
Ndlovu, Godfrey; Toerien, Francois - In: Research in international business and finance 52 (2020), pp. 1-21
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