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“The Impact of Microcredit on the Poor in Bangladesh: Revisiting the Evidence,” by David Roodman and Jonathan Morduch (2014) is the most recent of a sequence of papers and postings that seeks to refute the findings of the Pitt and Khandker (1998) article “The Impact of Group-Based Credit...
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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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Verde. These findings have important implications for the optimal design of microfinance programs, in particular concerning … the targeting of loans and the use of microfinance as an instrument to support improved labor market outcomes. …
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We investigate if participation in Indian Self Help Group microfinance program (SHG) results in reducing vulnerability … be robust using sensitivity analysis and Rosenbaum bounds method. -- Microfinance ; Vulnerability ; Poverty ; Self Help …
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vicious circle.Microfinance is a successful financial innovation to help the poor to sort out credit exclusion, which is one … unfair globalization.Microfinance, a grass-roots movement to provide credit to the neediest, can greatly help to dismantle at … the poorest for financial services is potentially unlimited – while supply is not.The key idea is that if microfinance is …
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This study examines the effect of financial inclusion on poverty and vulnerability to poverty of Ghanaian households. Using data extracted from the seventh round of the Ghana Living Standards Survey in 2016/17, a multiple correspondence analysis is employed to generate a financial inclusion...
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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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This paper scrutinizes the impact of urban microfinance on livelihood strategies of borrower slum dwellers of Dhaka … keyfinding is that urban microfinance has a statistically significant positive impact on some income or expenditure variables … expenditure variables. Theprobability of changing occupations of the microfinance borrowers is statistically significantly higher …
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Limited borrower information may create targeting distortions in credit markets. Community-based lending programs may reduce these distortions by exploiting information transmitted in local networks, but connections may create asymmetries in power. This paper analyzes how local leaders balance...
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This study provides a tailor-made microfinance model for participation banks (PBs) in Turkiye, benefiting from the … consensus that if PBs are to play their development role, they should integrate microfinance into their activities. The study … provides the most comprehensive research on Islamic microfinance in Turkiye, incorporating the opinions of participation …
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