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Risk management among the poor : the case of microfinancial services
Arun, Thankom; Bendig, Mirko - 2010
This paper argues that the level of financial services provision determines the risk management strategies among the poor. The paper estimates the determinants of the household's use of one, two or all three types of microfinancial services applying ordered probit models and additionally probit...
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Savings groups reduce vulnerability, but have mixed effects on financial inclusion
Frisancho Robles, Verónica; Valdivia, J. Martín - 2020
This paper evaluates the impact of the introduction of savings groups on poverty, vulnerability, and financial … microfinance lenders among the unbanked. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012587506
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Financial Inclusion, Gender Dimension, and Economic Impact on Poor Households
Swamy, Vighneswara - 2014
We examine the question: “In the context of gender dimension what is the evidence of the impact of the financial inclusion programs on poor households represented by women relative to that represented by men?” By constructing a good counterfactual and comparison group, we employ the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013053196
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How Poor Bangladeshi Households Behave Regarding Access to Commitment Savings Products
Laureti, Carolina; Volral, Mélanie - 2020
Bangladeshi microfinance institution that launched the Long Term Savings commitment product in 2009. First, we find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014352147
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Empirical analysis of participation patterns in microfinancial markets : the cases of Ghana and Sri Lanka
Bendig, Mirko - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009633988
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Empirical analysis of participation patterns in microfinancial markets : the cases of Ghana and Sri Lanka
Bendig, Mirko - 2012
household survey data from Ghana. Second, it analyzes the household's cumulative participation in microfinancial services using … insurance in Sri Lanka is motivated by the desire to leave bequests. At last, it investigates different sequential steps of the … household’s microinsurance participation decision and the joint analysis of micro life and health insurance enrolment in Sri …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011933882
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Financial inclusion and poverty : a tale of forty-five thousand households
Awaworyi Churchill, Sefa; Marisetty, Vijaya Bhaskar - In: Applied economics 52 (2020) 16, pp. 1777-1788
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The welfare effects of financial inclusion in Ghana : an exploration based on a multidimensional measure of financial inclusion
Iddrisu, Abdul Malik; Danquah, Michael - 2021
Using a nationally representative household survey data set from Ghana, this paper provides empirical evidence … financial inclusion would be important in the quest to reduce the incidence of poverty and vulnerability as well as inequality. …
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Does microcredit increase household welfare in the absence of microinsurance?
Akotey, Joseph Oscar; Adjasi, Charles Komla Delali - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 77 (2016), pp. 380-394
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To invest or not to invest in sanitation : the role of intra-household gender differences in perceptions and bargaining power
Augsburg, Britta; Malde, Bansi; Olorenshaw, Harriet; … - 2021
We exploit novel data collected within a randomised controlled trial of a sanitation microcredit intervention to study how intra-household gender differences in perceptions of costs and benefits of sanitation impact investment decisions. We show that – as long as the wife is involved in...
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