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Michelacci, Claudio; Silva, Olmo - Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) - 2005

We document that the fraction of entrepreneurs who work in the region where they were born is significantly higher than the corresponding fraction for dependent workers. This difference is more pronounced in more developed regions and positively related to the degree of local financial...

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Why So Many Local Entrepreneurs?

Michelacci, Claudio; Silva, Olmo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

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Microcredit with voluntary contributions and zero interest rate : evidence from Pakistan

Mahmud, Mahreen - 2015

microfinance organization operating in Pakistan since 2001. Borrowers are encouraged to give any amount they wish to the …

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Targeting credit through community members: Job market paper

Vera Cossio, Diego Alejandro - 2017

Delegating the allocation of public resources to community members is an increasingly popular form of delivering development programs and are associated with a tradeoff between improved information about potential beneficiaries and favoritism towards local elites. Unlike targeting cash transfers...

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Social Connections and Group Banking

Karlan, Dean S. - 2005

Lending to the poor is expensive due to high screening, monitoring, and enforcement costs. Group lending advocates believe lenders overcome this by harnessing social connections. Using data from FINCA-Peru, I exploit a quasi-random group formation process to find evidence of peers successfully...

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Targeting credit through community members : job market paper

Vera Cossío, Diego Alejandro - 2017

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Group Lending, Joint Liability, and Social Capital : Insights from the Indian Microfinance Crisis

Haldar, Antara - 2017

This article grapples with the causes of India's microfinance crisis. By contrasting Bangladesh's highly successful … Grameen model with the allegedly “universalizable” version of India's SKS Microfinance (which precipitated the crisis), trust … — as the essential element accounting for the early success of microfinance. It is argued that the microfinance experience …

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How effective is a Big Push to the Small? Evidence from a Quasi-random Experiment

Mallick, Debdulal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

microfinance program that typically excludes them. The extreme poor were provided income-generating assets and continued support … that such a big push has indeed significant impact on graduation to the regular microfinance program. Social capital has …

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Membership has its priveleges : the effect of social capital and neighbourhood characteristics on the earnings of microfinance borrowers

Gomez, Rafael; Santor, Eric - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001

microfinance borrowers. The paper posits that social capital - social relations that facilitate individual action – is essential …

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Microcredit with voluntary contributions and zero interest rate: Evidence from Pakistan

Mahmud, Mahreen - 2015

microfinance organization operating in Pakistan since 2001. Borrowers are encouraged to give any amount they wish to the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011445290