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Loan Allocation within Group Lending: New Evidence From Self-Help Group Program in South India
Goto, Jun - 2010
Microfinance (MF) has attracted growing attention as a means of improving financial access. Reflecting the enthusiasm … about it, Government of India has initiated the biggest MF program since 1992. This program adopts a group lending …, using original data collected in Kerala, South India. Estimation results show that the access to microcredit is not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446108
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Pricing and interconnection agreements in network markets
Martin Reichhuber - 2008
Ever since the beginning of the nineties, interconnection pricing emerged as a high priority regulatory policy question. As more and more state-owned monopolies were privatized, their essential facility (or simply their network) had to be opened to competition. The most viable practice was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429009
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Access to Microfinance: Does it Matter for Profit Efficiency Among Small Scale Rice Farmers in Bangladesh?
Sumelius, John; Islam, K.M. Zahidul; Sipilainen, Timo - 2011
This paper measures profit efficiency and examines the effect of access to microfinance on theperformance of rice firms … models. After effectively correcting forselectivity bias, the mean profit efficiency of the microfinance borrowers and non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443378
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THE COST STRUCTURE OF MICROFINANCE INSTITUTIONS IN EASTERN EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA
Hartarska, Valentina; Caudill, Steven B.; Gropper, Daniel M. - 2006
Microfinance institutions are important, particularly in developing countries, because they expand the frontier of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476699
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Finance, Human Capital, Technical Assistance, and the Business Environment in Romania
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Lup, Dana - 2004
Although the development of a new private sector is generally considered crucial to economic transition and development, there has been little empirical research on the determinants of startup firm growth. This paper uses panel data techniques to analyze a survey of 297 new small enterprises in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476783
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Are Women More Credit Constrained? Experimental Evidence on Gender and Microenterprise Returns
de Mel, Suresh; McKenzie, David; Woodruff, Christopher - 2007
This paper analyzes data from a randomized experiment on mean returns to capital in SriLankan micro-enterprises. The findings show greater returns among men than among women; indeed, returns were not different from zero for women. The authors explore different explanations for the lower returns...
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What Makes Small Firms Grow? Finance, Human Capital, Technical Assistance, and the Business Environment in Romania
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Lup, Dana - 2004
Although the development of a new private sector is generally considered crucial to economic transition, there has been rather little empirical research on the determinants of startup firm growth. This paper uses panel data techniques to analyze a survey of 297 new small enterprises in Romania...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477143
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Optimal strategies for the development of microfinance in Korea and the impact of microfinance
Yoon, Youngeun - 2010
This paper mainly focuses on finding optimal strategies for the development of microfinance in Korea and on predicting … the impact of microfinance in the future.First, this paper reviews and assesses the impact of microfinance in Korea. I … microfinance is needed in Korea. Although the Korean economy has made great strides, the difference in the income between the poor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477769
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The Relative Cost Efficiencies of Commercial Banks, Rural Financial Institutions, and Microfinance Institutions in China
Wu, Ya; Escalante, Cesar L.; Gunter, Lewell F. - 2010
commercial banks, rural financial institutions and microfinance institutions in China. The first pairwise comparison indicated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446093
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THE MICROENTERPRISE PROMISE: CREATING OPPORTUNITIES FOR LOWINCOME INDIVIDUALS IN EUGENE, OREGON AND ADJACENT RURAL COMMUNITIES
Macias del Villar, Sandra - 2008
Microfinance is dedicated to the provision of financial services to low-incomeindividuals including women, minorities … (MDP) in the United States have provided a variety of microfinance services tomany low-income urban and, primarily, rural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009447400