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SECURITIES MARKETS AND SOCIAL CAPITAL INTEGRATION IN AFRICA: RISKS AND POLICY OPTIONS

NWAOBI, GODWIN - EconWPA - 2005

The need to develop securities market has, following the recent international financial crises, increasingly attracted the attention of national and international policy makers. Never before have developed and developing countries shared such a strong interest in ensuring the stable growth of...

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Are Women More Credit Constrained? Experimental Evidence on Gender and Microenterprise Returns

de Mel, Suresh; McKenzie, David; Woodruff, Christopher - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

In a recent randomized experiment we found mean returns to capital of between 5 and 6 percent per month in Sri Lankan microenterprises, much higher than market interest rates. But returns were found to be much higher among men than among women, and indeed were not different from zero for women....

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Value Through Diversity: Microfinance and Islamic Finance and Global Banking

Ferro, Nicoletta - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

interest of western banks in new models of finance, particularly Islamic finance and microfinance. This new trend is not only … primarily outlines that many elements of microfinance could be considered consistent with the broader goals of Islamic banking …

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Informal tradables and the employment growth of Indian manufacturing

Ghani, Syed Ejaz; Kerr, William Robert; Segura, Alex - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2015

India's manufacturing growth from 1989 to 2010 displays two intriguing properties: 1) a substantial fraction of absolute and net employment growth is concentrated in informal tradable industries, and 2) much of this growth is connected to the development of one-person establishments. This paper...

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What Impact Does Microfinance Have on Rural Livelihood? A Comparison of Governmental and Non-Governmental Microfinance Programs in Bangladesh

Mazumder, Mohummed Shofi Ullah; Lu, Wencong - In: World Development 68 (2015) C, pp. 336-354

This paper analyzes the impact of different microfinance providers on basic rights and quality of life. Data were … collected in two phases from 300 microfinance beneficiaries and 200 control respondents. Descriptive statistics, factor analysis …, multiple regression, propensity score matching, and treatment effect models were used for analysis. Microfinance appears to …

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Measuring Microfinance: Assessing the Conflict between Practitioners and Researchers with Evidence from Nepal

Rajbanshi, Ram; Huang, Meng; Wydick, Bruce - In: World Development 68 (2015) C, pp. 30-47

What accounts for the discrepancy between microfinance impact claims of development practitioners and the far smaller … practitioners overstate microfinance impacts and why estimations in some recent randomized trials understate the average treatment … microfinance in villages where microfinance did not previously exist. We find that approximately three-fourths of the apparent …

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Sustainability of Microfinance Institutions in Financial Crisis

DOKULILOVÁ, Lenka; Janda, Karel; ZETEK, Pavel - In: European Financial and Accounting Journal 2009 (2009) 2, pp. 7-33

The aim of this paper is to clarify the problems of microfinance and the sustainability of microfinance institutions …, the operations of MFIs are often not sufficiently efficient. The microfinance sector is in general known for its …

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Microfinance and Gender: Is There a Glass Ceiling on Loan Size?

Szafarz, Ariane; Agier, Isabelle - Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, … - 2013

Most of the customers of microfinance institutions are female. But do men and women benefit from the same credit … comprising 34,000 loan applications from a Brazilian microfinance institution. The model determines the optimal loan size fixed …

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What determines entrepreneurial outcomes in emerging markets ? the role of initial conditions

Ayyagari, Meghana; Demirguc-Kunt, Asli; Maksimovic, Vojislav - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2015

Is it the institutions or firm characteristics at birth that shape startups and their early growth in developing countries? Using comprehensive data from the Indian Annual Survey of Industries this paper addresses this question by studying the early lifecycle of firms across diverse...

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Migration and Financial Constraints: Evidence from Mexico

Angelucci, Manuela - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 97 (2015) 1, pp. 224-228

, some of whom would like to migrate but cannot afford to. As growth and antipoverty and microfinance programs relax …

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