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Limited borrower information may create targeting distortions in credit markets. Community-based lending programs may reduce these distortions by exploiting information transmitted in local networks, but connections may create asymmetries in power. This paper analyzes how local leaders balance...
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Limited borrower information may create targeting distortions in credit markets. Community-based lending programs may reduce these distortions by exploiting information transmitted in local networks, but connections may create asymmetries in power. This paper analyzes how local leaders balance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012534408
. However, the spread of consumer microcredit and uncontrolled growth of microfinance led to over-lending without adequate …Microfinance is the provision of financial services to the financially excluded, usually the poor. We use literature … microenterprise. The first thrust in this field had been from microcredit and group lending to encourage business initiatives among …
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short cases to indicate how a social problem was addressed by a social innovation by entrepreneurial actions by microfinance … service providers. The cases are from microcredit, microguarantee, microinsurance and microequity …
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short cases to indicate how a social problem was addressed by a social innovation by entrepreneurial actions by microfinance … service providers. The cases are from microcredit, microguarantee, microinsurance and microequity. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010723276
. However, the spread of consumer microcredit and uncontrolled growth of microfinance led to over-lending without adequate …Microfinance is the provision of financial services to the financially excluded, usually the poor. We use literature … microenterprise. The first thrust in this field had been from microcredit and group lending to encourage business initiatives among …
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Is the vast army of the self-employed in low income countries a source of employment generation? We use data from surveys in Sri Lanka to compare the characteristics of own account workers (non-employers) with wage workers and with owners of larger firms. We use a rich set of measures of...
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Is the vast army of the self-employed in low income countries a source of employment generation? We use data from surveys in Sri Lanka to compare the characteristics of own account workers (non-employers) with wage workers and with owners of larger firms. We use a rich set of measures of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325147
actions were boosted through the movement of microfinance. Literary experiences have disclosed that Self Help Group (SHGs … entrepreneurs and the role of microfinance in assisting women to start micro enterprises. The paper also looks at the reasons of …
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