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'Evaluating' microfinance : academic irrelevance

Rashid, Salim - 2012

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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Unilateral liberalization versus regional integration : the case of ECO member countries

Achakzai, Jahangir Khan - In: The Lahore journal of economics 15 (2010) 1, pp. 27-44

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Financial crisis, trade finance, and SMEs : case of Central Asia

Pasadilla, Gloria O. - 2010

This paper surveys studies of the importance of Central Asian small- and medium-sized enterprises (SME) in the economy and their experience during the Russian financial crisis. It also uses survey data from the World Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development's Business...