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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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Although microfinance institutions across the world are moving from group lending towards individual lending, this …
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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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The choice of Microfinance (MF) by the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) as the primary means of poverty alleviation … to take a fresh look and start from first principles to clear the air. Microfinance is micro finance---it is finance writ … small. If finance works, microfinance works. Much of the difficulty has been created by academics and arises from scholars …
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Although microfinance institutions across the world are moving from group lending towards individual lending, this …
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This study examines whether microfinance is an effective poverty reduction intervention tool and the link between … access to microfinance and poverty reduction in northern Ethiopia. The study tests the hypothesis that accesses to/ or … participation in microfinance eradicates poverty reduction and /or improving the living standards of the poorest population are …
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This study examines whether microfinance is an effective poverty-reduction intervention tool and the link between … access to microfinance and poverty reduction in northern Ethiopia. The study tests the hypothesis that access to/ or … participation in microfinance eradicates poverty reduction and /or improving the living standards of the poorest population are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866852
metrics, `impacts' of Microfinance programs around the world are more directly comparable … around an aggressive foray into provision of Microfinance is more likely to fail, than to succeed. The Microfinance strategy … any supply-side or income multiplier effect from Microfinance, and there is not arrival at any beneficial transformation …
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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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We use an RCT to analyze the impacts of microcredit. The study population consists of loan applicants who were marginally rejected by an MFI in Bosnia. A random subset of these were offered a loan. We provide evidence of higher self-employment, increases in inventory, a reduction in the...
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