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Special Agricultural Microfinance Organizations - Macedonian Experience
Kovachev, Goran - 2014
In countries where agriculture has substantial role in generating domestic product, sustainable microfinance can seriously increase economic activities and hence rural development. It is well known that agriculture is perceived as specific and risky to be financed by banks. Therefore, creating a...
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What Do We Know about Microfinance at Macro Glance?
Alimukhamedova, Nargiza; Hanousek, Jan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
The majority of microfinance impact studies focus on finding their effect on a specific group of beneficiaries, in contrast we aim to identify the impact on whole economies (economic growth, and financial sector development and reductions in income inequalities), which is an important policy...
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South Africa's post-apartheid microcredit-driven calamity : comparing 'developmental' to 'anti-developmental' local financial models
Bateman, Milford - 2014
Microcredit was once universally lauded in international development community circles as a 'magic bullet'. Using the example of South Africa, this paper shows that microcredit has actually been an 'anti-developmental' local financial model, and one of the most calamitous financial sector...
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Public Finance, Micro Finance and Accelerated Economic Development for the Eradication of Extreme Poverty in Sub Sahara Africa
Chukwuogor, Chiaku Nwamu - 2016
According to the World Bank, in 2011, 415 million, that is 41.5 percent of the world's extremely poor, living on less than $1.25 a day, live in Saharan Africa. A situation where more than 415 million people in a sub region of the world still live in abject poverty should be of global concern not...
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Enhanced microfinance services and agricultural best management practices : what benefits for smallholders farmers? ; an evidence from Burkina Faso
Tamini, Lota D.; Bocoum, Ibrahima; Auger, Ghislain; … - 2019
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Trend of financial inclusion in South Asia : a cross country analysis with special reference to India
Laha, Arindam - In: Research bulletin / The Institute of Cost Accountants … 41 (2015) 2, pp. 73-83
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Convergence of the performance of microfinance institutions : a decomposition analysis
Li, Lin Yang; Hermes, Niels; Meesters, Aljar - In: Economic modelling 81 (2019), pp. 308-324
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Microfinance and Moneylenders: Long-run Effects of MFIs on Informal Credit Market in Bangladesh
Berg, Claudia; Emran, M. Shahe; Shilpi, Forhad - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Using two surveys from Bangladesh, this paper provides evidence on the effects of microfinance competition on village …
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The role of Islamic Microfinance in Poverty Alleviation: Lessons from Bangladesh Experience
Dhaoui, Elwardi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
In the People’s Republic of Bangladesh, the poverty has been a main challenge since the last decades and its … a gainful employment opportunities. The Islamic banks and the Islamic windows of conventional banks in Bangladesh should … microfinance in poverty alleviation efforts in Bangladesh and how this role can be enhanced. It was intended to establish and …
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The microfinance of reproduction and the reproduction of microfinance: understanding the connections between microfinance, empowerment, contraception and fertility in Bangladesh in...
Duvendack, Maren; Palmer-Jones, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
, Schuler and Riley (1996); Schuler and Hashemi (1994), using naive methods find that MF in Bangladesh increases contraceptive … outweigh substitution. Steele et al (2001), also using data from Bangladesh from around the same time as the PKML study, come …
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