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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013207148
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Economic or non-economic factors: What empowers women?
Swain, Ranjula Bali; Wallentin, Fang Yang - 2008
Microfinance programs like Self Help Group Bank linkage program (SHG), aim to empower women through provision of …
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Economic or non-economic factors : what empowers women?
Swain, Ranjula Bali (contributor);  … - 2008
Microfinance programs like Self Help Group Bank linkage program (SHG), aim to empower women through provision of … the most significant factors in empowering women. -- microfinance ; impact ; women empowerment …
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The Miracle of Microfinance? Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation
Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2013
of a particular microfinance institution (Spandana) while the remainder were not, although other MFIs were free to enter …. We found no changes in any of the development outcomes that are often believed to be affected by microfinance, including …
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The Impact of Microcredit on Women-owned Small and Medium Enterprises : Evidence from Kenya
Osa Ouma, Clemencia - 2014
Microcredit is a crucial tool for economic empowerment of women. In Kenya, the microcredit industry has supported more than 3 million small and medium enterprises for close to 30 years. Kenya Women Finance Trust is a leading microcredit institution dealing exclusively with financing needs of...
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The Macroeconomics of Microfinance
Buera, Francisco J. - 2013
We provide a quantitative evaluation of the aggregate and distributional impact of microfinance or credit programs … targeted toward small businesses. We find that the redistributive impact of microfinance is stronger in general equilibrium … total factor productivity (TFP) increases with microfinance in general equilibrium but decreases in partial equilibrium …
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Financial Inclusion, Gender Dimension, and Economic Impact on Poor Households
Swamy, Vighneswara - 2014
We examine the question: “In the context of gender dimension what is the evidence of the impact of the financial inclusion programs on poor households represented by women relative to that represented by men?” By constructing a good counterfactual and comparison group, we employ the...
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Understanding the Impact of Microcredit Expansions : A Bayesian Hierarchical Analysis of 7 Randomised Experiments
Meager, Rachael - 2015
Bayesian hierarchical models serve as a standard methodology for aggregation and synthesis, used widely in statistics and other disciplines. I use this framework to aggregate the data from seven randomised experiments of expanding access to microcredit, assessing both the general impact of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013020777
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Financing Smallholder Agriculture : An Experiment with Agent-Intermediated Microloans in India
Maitra, Pushkar - 2015
Recent evaluations of traditional microloans have not found significant impacts on borrower production or incomes. We examine whether this can be remedied by delegating selection of borrowers for individual liability loans to local trader-lender agents incentivized by repayment-based...
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