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More than 65 million poor people have accessed microcredit schemes and about three quarters of them are women. This paper addresses the challenging issue of whether the microcredit programmes are tools for empowering poor women. For this purpose the problem is identified as ― to what extent...
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Selection into self-employment among the poor is dominated by subsistence concerns, which leads to high levels of unproductive self-employment in developing countries. We incorporate this view into an otherwise benchmark macro-development model by allowing for labor frictions. Standard models...
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time the microfinance community lacks information on disability issues. In this report we aim on closing the gap in … knowledge and culture between the disability- and the microfinance communities. We apply resource based theory to analyze when … microfinance institutions and the disabled population is probably the main hindrance for increased penetration of microcredit …
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Microfinance competition has been transformed over the past two decades by forces such as regulation, increased … Microfinance institutions (MFIs) profitability. This study examines the determinant, persistence and convergence of MFIs … of persistence of excess profit from one year to the next. It is plausible that if there is a shock to profitability …
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