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Impact ranking of microfinance institutions : an empirical study in India

Singh, Prakash - In: International journal of Indian culture and business … 19 (2019) 2, pp. 189-210

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Impact of microentrepreneurial activity : a case of Indian economy

Joddar, Debasish - In: International journal of entrepreneurship and small … 44 (2021) 4, pp. 413-434

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Chapter 71. Access to Finance

Karlan, Dean; Morduch, Jonathan - In: Handbook of development economics : volume 5, (pp. 4703-4784). 2010

Expanding access to financial services holds the promise to help reduce poverty and spur economic development. But, as a practical matter, commercial banks have faced challenges expanding access to poor and low-income households in developing economies, and nonprofits have had limited reach. We...

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Financing from family and friends

Lee, Samuel; Persson, Petra - 2012

though they relax financing constraints. We relate this insight to the limited success of group-based microfinance in … loans ; social ties ; altruism ; peer-to-peer lending ; small business ; entrepreneurial finance ; microfinance ; missing …

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Strategic behavior between a bank and a microfinance institution : the role of psychological distance and education level

Fall, François; Nguyen, Huu Thanh Tam - 2015

competition between a bank and a microfinance institution (MFI), geographical distance and transportation costs alone are no …

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Overview of financial inclusion, regulation, financial literacy, and education in Central Asia and South Caucasus

Morgan, Peter J.; Zhang, Yan; Kydyrbayev, Dossym - 2018

Financial inclusion and financial literacy are receiving increasing attention for their potential to contribute to economic and financial development while fostering more inclusive growth and greater income equality. In general, the progress of financial inclusion and financial development in...

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Poverty and wellbeing impacts of microfinance : what do we know?

Maîtrot, Mathilde; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel - 2017

Over the last 35 years, microfinance has been generally regarded as an effective policy tool in the fight against … address this question, we conduct a systematic review of the quantitative literature of microfinance's impacts in the … the limited comparability of outcomes and the heterogeneity of microfinance-lending technologies, together with a …

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Identity, trust and altruism : an experiment on preferences and microfinance lending

Chen, Josie I.; Foster, Andrew D.; Putterman, Louis G. - 2017

preference over borrowers in micro-finance lending. We distinguish between perceptions of transaction-related factors, such as …

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Returns to islamic microfinance : evidence from a randomized experiment in Pakistan

Maazullah; Bedi, Arjun Singh - 2017

The global microfinance movement is driven by the claim that once poor micro-entrepreneurs are provided access to … substantiate this claim. This paper reports on a field experiment conducted in Pakistan, in co-operation with Akhuwat microfinance … microfinance institutions in Pakistan. …

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Institutions and social capital in group lending

Alexeev, Michael V.; Nurmakhanovac, Mira; Polishchuk, … - In: Russian journal of economics 7 (2021) 4, pp. 269-296

Formal institutions and social capital interact with each other in multiple ways. We argue and show empirically at the cross-country level that in the case of group lending, contract enforcement complements bonding social capital and substitutes for bridging one. It means that payoff to social...

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