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interview market participants and triangulate the perspectives of borrowers with those of formal and informal lenders …. Importantly, our research includes current and past borrowing from formal and informal sources, prompting participants to draw … unintended consequence of formal microfinance: The availability of formal low-interest microfinance creates informal …
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The authors introduce a simple model of public preferences on poverty assistance. Their focus is on the roles played by the socioeconomic status of a potential welfare recipient and the stereotypes about his/her ethnic group in shaping taxpayers' preferences on appropriate assistance. The model...
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of poverty, the probit model emphasizes that women are more favored in access to microcredit (ii) second, in terms of …
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, however, not driven by higher income, as microcredit does not improve the ability to migrate for work, nor does it reduce …
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The purpose of this paper is to introduce the three different forms of institutional transformation in microfinance - the upscaling-, the downscaling- and the greenfield-approach - and to assess in how far they contribute to a ‘mission drift' in microfinance, away from providing affordable...
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, Peru. In this first institutional analysis in ACCION's Poverty Outreach project, the authors analyze client income data to …
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This chapter explores the relationship between poverty and aging, in terms of its measurement and trends, as well as its alleviation, with particular attention to the most vulnerable individuals at each end of the age distribution. The measurement addresses both the definition of poverty and its...
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