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thousands deaths till September 2020 around the globe. Shari’ah compliant microfinance solution for poverty eradication is … resources but it is also contributing to increase the level of poverty with a fear and chaos that prevent us from making the … considered as one of the acceptable and suitable way-outs to alleviate poverty but now it is facing numerous types of challenges …
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the deprivations and enhance welfare of the poor. Islamic Microfinance is one of them and is rapidly getting popular in … microfinance on the household welfare of the target clients by observing its impact on health, education, income, expenditures and … assets of the poor who took loan from Islamic Microfinance institutions (IMFIs). Study is based on primary data and …
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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...
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Bayesian hierarchical models serve as a standard methodology for aggregation and synthesis, used widely in statistics and other disciplines. I use this framework to aggregate the data from seven randomised experiments of expanding access to microcredit, assessing both the general impact of the...
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We use an RCT to analyze the impacts of microcredit. The study population consists of loan applicants who were marginally rejected by an MFI in Bosnia. A random subset of these were offered a loan. We provide evidence of higher self-employment, increases in inventory, a reduction in the...
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Over the last 35 years, microfinance has been generally regarded as an effective policy tool in the fight against … poverty. Yet, the question of whether access to credit leads to poverty reduction and improved wellbeing remains open. To … address this question, we conduct a systematic review of the quantitative literature of microfinance's impacts in the …
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We review the empirical evidence on microfinance and asset grants to the ultra poor or microentrepreneurs and use … lead to wide-scale, transformative impacts akin to escaping aggregate poverty traps …
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