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The paper adds to the debate on how far microfinance can contribute to poverty reduction and development. The recent controversial discussion about microfinance as a development instrument is taken as a starting point. The paper starts with the hypothesis that the prevalent notions and...
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Although microfinance institutions across the world are moving from group lending towards individual lending, this strategic shift is not substantiated by sufficient empirical evidence on the impact of both types of lending on borrowers. We present such evidence from a randomised field...
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The paper focuses on women's financial behaviour in their use of higher order financial services in Ghana and South Africa, inviting a gendered and social analysis of deconstructing financial behaviour. Women in South Africa are more likely to use general financial products than in Ghana, though...
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We examine how the geographical proximity to a new microfinance bank branch affects the use of bank accounts by low-income households. We study the expansion of the branch network of ProCredit banks in South-East Europe between 2006 and 2010. The analysis is based on household-level survey data...
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