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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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We identify the tension created by the dual demands of financial institutions to be value-maximizing entities that also serve the public interest. We highlight the importance of information in addressing the public's desire for banks to be safe yet innovative. Regulators can choose several...
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There is growing consensus that the conduct of monetary policy can have an impact on stability through the risk-taking incentives of banks. Falling interest rates might induce a “search for yield” and generate incentives to invest into risky activities. This paper provides evidence on the...
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There is growing consensus that the conduct of monetary policy can have an impact on financial and economic stability through the risk-taking incentives of banks. Falling interest rates might induce a "search for yield" and generate incentives to invest into risky activities. This paper provides...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009011303
Although microfinance institutions across the world are moving from group lending towards individual lending, this …
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We investigate if participation in Indian Self Help Group microfinance program (SHG) results in reducing vulnerability … be robust using sensitivity analysis and Rosenbaum bounds method. -- Microfinance ; Vulnerability ; Poverty ; Self Help …
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The choice of Microfinance (MF) by the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) as the primary means of poverty alleviation … to take a fresh look and start from first principles to clear the air. Microfinance is micro finance---it is finance writ … small. If finance works, microfinance works. Much of the difficulty has been created by academics and arises from scholars …
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Although microfinance institutions across the world are moving from group lending towards individual lending, this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009388959
This study examines whether microfinance is an effective poverty reduction intervention tool and the link between … access to microfinance and poverty reduction in northern Ethiopia. The study tests the hypothesis that accesses to/ or … participation in microfinance eradicates poverty reduction and /or improving the living standards of the poorest population are …
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This study examines whether microfinance is an effective poverty-reduction intervention tool and the link between … access to microfinance and poverty reduction in northern Ethiopia. The study tests the hypothesis that access to/ or … participation in microfinance eradicates poverty reduction and /or improving the living standards of the poorest population are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866852