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Financial inclusion and hurdles to funding female entrepreneurs in Tunisia
Adair, Philippe; Berguiga, Imène - 2022
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Financial inclusion and hurdles to funding Tunisian female entrepreneurs
Adair, Philippe; Berguiga, Imène - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013557121
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410584
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Refinancing MFIs with market power : theory and evidence
Arnold, Lutz; Booker, Benedikt; Dorfleitner, Gregor; … - 2016
This paper presents a model of the complete microcredit financing chain investor - MIV - MFI - micro-borrower, in which social-minded MIVs provide funds only to those MFIs which do not exploit their bargaining power towards micro-borrowers. The MFIs with the highest bargaining power do not use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418233
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Commercial bank innovations in small and medium-sized enterprise finance : global models and implications for Thailand
Tientip Subhanij - 2016
success of microfinance around the world, a large number of commercial banks have made a profitable business out of this … sector. This paper explores various business models by commercial banks in microfinance and provides policy implications for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011522031
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The impact of microfinance on pro-social behaviors : experimental evidence of public goods contributions in Uganda
McCannon, Bryan; Rodriguez, Zachary - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011523371
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Patterns of engagement with youth savings groups in four African countries
Flynn, Justin; Sumberg, James - 2016
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'Upliftment' friends and finance : everyday concepts and practices of resource exchange underpinning mobile money adaption in Kenya
Johnson, Susan; Krijtenburg, Froukje - 2015
The rapid adoption of mobile money transfer (MMT) in East Africa, and Kenya in particular, is facilitating a nexus of inter-personal financial transfers which has hitherto been the least visible dimension of informal finance. At the same time, the success of capturing these flows into a formal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011374639
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Towards a plural history of microfinance
Copestake, James (contributor);  … - 2015
This paper is concerned with the recent history of microfinance, both for itself and as a case study of the evolution … applauded the successes of microfinance in expanding financial market opportunities; and a political economy critique that … India, before turning to the potential for a more inductive and plural account. A more plural history of microfinance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011374644
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Psychological and social motivations in microfinance contracts : theory and evidence
Dhami, Sanjit S.; Arshad, Junaid; Al-Nowaihi, Ali - 2019
Microfinance contracts have enormous economic and welfare significance. We study, theoretically and empirically, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012040097