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This paper uses cross-country and panel data set to test the significance of microfinance on income inequality … microfinance in reducing inequality at the macro level. Moreover, our results suggest that microfinance loans can lead to improve … recommendations to policymakers, as they could generate suitable strategies to consider microfinance institutions as a more popular …
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This paper introduces the concepts of time-specific weak and strong cross section dependence. A double-indexed process is said to be cross sectionally weakly dependent at a given point in time, t, if its weighted average along the cross section dimension (N) converges to its expectation in...
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This paper introduces the concepts of time-specific weak and strong cross section dependence. A double-indexed process is said to be cross sectionally weakly dependent at a given point in time, t, if its weighted average along the cross section dimension (N) converges to its expectation in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158328
Impact evaluations of development programmes usually focus on a comparison of participants with a control group. However, if the programme generates externalities for non-participants such an approach will capture only part of the programme’s impact. Based on a unique large-scale quantitative...
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Impact evaluations of development programmes usually focus on a comparison of participants with a control group. However, if the programme generates externalities for non-participants such an approach will capture only part of the programme's impact. Based on a unique large-scale quantitative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014066657
We use a first-hand linked employer-employee dataset representing the formal sector of Bangladesh to explain gender …
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This paper uses a novel matched employer-employee data set representing the formal sector in Bangladesh to provide …
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Bangladesh at micro-level administrative domains, encompassing sixty four districts and five hundred forty four sub-districts. We … analysis incorporates data from six rounds of the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey (BDHS) spanning the period from 2000 … towards meeting nutrition goals to date within detailed administrative domains in Bangladesh. The utilization of accessible …
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nationally representative, multipurpose, five-round (1988, 2000, 2004, 2008, and 2014) Mahabub Hossain Panel Data in Bangladesh … microfinance institutes, and informal channels-on household welfare indicators. We find that the long-term impact of access to … progressive lending of some credit sources, especially microfinance institutes, and have implications for the introduction of …
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Bangladesh, little has been done to quantitatively estimate its effects. Within the framework of Rubin's causal model, this paper …
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