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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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Client Satisfaction in Faith-Based Microfinance : A Comparison with Mainstream Models of Microfinance

Hoda, Najmul - 2015

The main purpose of this paper is to compare the client satisfaction of faith-based and mainstream microfinance …' opinion. The data-set comprised of a total of 300 microfinance clients - 150 from faith-based microfinance institutions and … 150 from the mainstream microfinance institutions. The data was collected through a structured questionnaire comprising of …

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Impact of Amanah Ikhtiar Malaysia’s Microcredit Schemes on Microenterprise Assets in Malaysia

Al Mamun, Abdullah - 2014

This study employs a cross sectional design with stratified random sampling method to examine the effect of Amanah Ikhtiar Malaysia's (AIM) microcredit program on hardcore poor households' microenterprise assets in Peninsular Malaysia. So far no known study has been conducted to measure the...

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Microfinance for poverty alleviation : do transnational initiatives overlook fundamental questions of competition and intermediation?

Arp, Frithjof; Ardisa, Alvin; Ardisa, Alviani - 2017

Numerous microfinance initiatives around the world aim to alleviate poverty in developing countries. However, debate … community, which contribute about $9.4 billion to microfinance funding. In this policy-oriented article we aggregate findings … from two studies in Indonesia that help explain why moneylending can still thrive when low-interest microfinance is widely …

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Microfinance for Poverty Alleviation : Do Transnational Initiatives Overlook Fundamental Questions of Competition and Intermediation?

Arp, Frithjof - 2018

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Impact evaluation of support to collective action for agricultural value chain development in Nepal

Raitzer, David A.; Batmunkh, Odbayar - 2022

Matching grant programs administered to agricultural groups and cooperatives have emerged as a means of helping smallholder farmers to commercialize in Nepal. These programs help farmers to access information on new technologies, overcome barriers to productive investment, and connect with...

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Mission drift in microcredit and microfinance institution incentives

Biancini, Sara; Ettinger, David; Venet, Baptiste - 2017 - This version: January 2017

We analyze the relationship between Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) and external donors, with the aim of contributing … to the debate on "mission drift" in microfinance. We assume that both the donor and the MFI are pro-poor, possibly at …

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