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Do flexible repayment schedules improve the impact of microcredit? : evidence from a randomized evaluation in rural India
Czura, Kristina - 2015
Microcredit institutions typically apply rigid and fixed repayment schedules when disbursing loans in order to reduce transaction costs, simplify procedures, and inculcate fiscal discipline for better repayment behavior. Microcredit clients, however, often have neither smooth income nor singular...
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Microfinance and the decision to invest in children's education
Viswanath, P. V. - In: International Journal of Financial Studies : open … 6 (2018) 1, pp. 1-20
Although one of the primary objectives of microfinance has been the reduction of poverty through the provision of … microfinance, there may be an indirect positive impact through the effect of microcredit availability on families’ decisions to … availability on education expenditures for children of clients of a South Indian microfinance institution. I first look at some …
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Microfinance and the decision to invest in children's education
Viswanath, P. V. - In: International Journal of Financial Studies 6 (2018) 1, pp. 1-20
Although one of the primary objectives of microfinance has been the reduction of poverty through the provision of … microfinance, there may be an indirect positive impact through the effect of microcredit availability on families' decisions to … availability on education expenditures for children of clients of a South Indian microfinance institution. I first look at some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011996081
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Microfinance and Women's Empowerment: Do Relationships Between Women Matter? Lessons from rural Southern India
Guérin, Isabelle; Kumar, Santosh; Agier, Isabelle - Centre Emile Bernheim, Solvay Brussels School of … - 2010
In the microfinance industry the idea of “empowerment” is often valued as a means to encourage female emancipation from …
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The feasibility of picture-based insurance (PBI): Smartphone pictures for affordable crop insurance
Ceballos, Francisco; Kramer, Berber; Robles, Miguel - In: Development Engineering 4 (2019), pp. 1-14
Smallholder farmers are increasingly exposed to weather extremes but lack access to affordable insurance products for catastrophic crop damage. This paper analyzes the feasibility of Picture-Based Insurance (PBI) as a low-cost tool to improve coverage. PBI verifies insurance claims using...
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Credit Constraint Impacts on Farm Households : Survey Results from India and China
Kumar, Chandra - 2014
India and China have the largest farm-household populations in the world and in many areas also the poorest. Among the many factors that affect farm livelihoods access to credit has been identified as a significant barrier. While there has been a significant literature on credit constraints in...
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Reforms in Institutional Finance for Inclusive Growth
Swamy, Vighneswara - 2014
This paper analyses the need, significance and the advantages of ‘reforms in institutional finance for inclusive growth' in the context of Indian economy and offers some practicable suggestions from the functional perspective. India's Rural Financial Architecture (RFA) is subject to systemic...
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Direct Institutional Credit to Indian Agriculture
Suryawanshi, Dr. Santosh - 2016
This research paper have examine the progress of short & long term direct institutional credit to supplying agricultural sector in India & bank branches expansion post economic reform period. The institutional credit has considered playing a key role in the agricultural development of India A...
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The feasibility of picture-based insurance (PBI) : smartphone pictures for affordable crop insurance
Ceballos, Francisco; Kramer, Berber; Robles, Miguel - In: Development engineering 4 (2019), pp. 2-14
Smallholder farmers are increasingly exposed to weather extremes but lack access to affordable insurance products for catastrophic crop damage. This paper analyzes the feasibility of Picture-Based Insurance (PBI) as a low-cost tool to improve coverage. PBI verifies insurance claims using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012040181
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Credit in rural India: a case study
Dreze, Jean; Lanjouw, Peter; Sharma, Naresh - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1997
This paper presents a case study of credit transactions in Palanpur, a north Indian village. Drawing on detailed informtion from all borrowers and lenders in the village, we examine a number of issues related to the functioning of rural credit markets. These include the segmentation of the...
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