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Marketplace lending of small- and medium-sized enterprises
Cumming, Douglas J.; Hornuf, Lars - In: Strategic entrepreneurship journal : SEJ 16 (2022) 1, pp. 32-66
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Credit NGOs' sustainability in rural financial market: a SWOT analysis on DAYBANG
He, Lin; Liao, Dongsheng - In: Humanomics: The International Journal of Systems and Ethics 28 (2012) Aug, pp. 200-208
focused on loans between relatives, friends and usurers. Few literatures, however, have studied the Credit NGOs (CNGOs …
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Credit NGOs' sustainability in rural financial market: a SWOT analysis on DAYBANG
He, Lin; Liao, Dongsheng - In: Humanomics 28 (2012) 3, pp. 200-208
focused on loans between relatives, friends and usurers. Few literatures, however, have studied the Credit NGOs (CNGOs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014745422
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Spending responses to state sales tax holidays
Agarwal, Sumit; McGranahan, Leslie - 2012
Every year over 20 states offer sales tax holidays (STHs) on specific items like clothes, shoes and other items to encourage consumption, effecting over 100 million consumers. We use a unique dataset of credit cards transaction to study the spending response to these holidays. Using a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292191
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Inspiring Poor Women to Empower Themselves: Insights and Lessons from Botswana
Nthomang, Keitseope - In: International Journal of Civic Engagement and Social … 3 (2016) 2, pp. 39-53
Empirical studies on the impact of micro level intervention strategies on poverty among poor women in Botswana are lacking, yet women are a valuable asset for the economy of the country. Continued marginalization and disempowerment of women has become a serious problem which merit urgent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012043581
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Finding Inner Strength in the Face of Adversity Kgopolano GROW Group Empowerment Journey: Botswana
Nthomang, Keitseope - In: International Journal of Civic Engagement and Social … 4 (2017) 3, pp. 37-52
This article describes how numerous studies in Botswana have found high levels of poverty among women, in particular, those in female-headed households. Extreme poverty among women continues despite government programme interventions designed to end poverty. This article reports the findings of...
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Finance and Growth at the Firm Level: Evidence from SBA Loans
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2015
We analyze linked databases on all Small Business Administration (SBA) loans, on all SBA lenders, and on all U … lenders. The estimation results imply an increase of 3-4 jobs for each million dollars of loans, suggesting that credit …-county versus non-SBA county-industry control firms. Finally, for loans issued over the 1992-2007 period, we estimate total job …
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Big push versus absorptive capacity: How to reconcile the two approaches
Guillaumont, Patrick; Guillaumont Jeanneney, Sylviane - 2007
properly managed, perform better than either loans or grants taken in isolation. The core of the intuition, which we develop in …
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Credit Rationing Effects of Credit Value-at-Risk
Slijkerman, Jan Frederik; Smant, David J.C.; de Vries, … - 2004
Banks provide risky loans to firms which have superior information regarding the quality of their projects. Due to … of low quality, i.e. high risk, loans and therefore reduces the risk of the bank loan portfolio. However, CVaR regulation …
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Government guarantees and bank risk taking incentives
Fischer, Markus; Hainz, Christa; Rocholl, Jörg; … - 2014
This paper analyzes the effect of the removal of government guarantees on bank risk taking. We exploit the removal of guarantees for German Landesbanken which results in lower credit ratings, higher funding costs, and a loss in franchise value. This removal was announced in 2001, but...
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