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Enhancing microfinance using index‐based risk‐transfer products

Skees, Jerry R.; Barnett, Barry J. - In: Agricultural Finance Review 66 (2006) 2, pp. 235-250

While significant progress in microcredit and microfinance has been made in low‐income countries, lending for small …

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Shocks and credit choice in Southern Ethiopia

Castellani, Davide - In: Agricultural Finance Review 74 (2014) 1, pp. 87-114

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine how shocks suffered by rural households in Ethiopia influence their decision to borrow and the source of credit. Design/methodology/approach – First, suppose a household faces a set of four borrowing alternatives: only formal borrowing, only...

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Forewarned is forearmed – repayment delays in microfinance relationships

Hering, Imke; Musshoff, Oliver - In: Agricultural Finance Review 77 (2017) 2, pp. 218-238

Purpose In order to improve the assessment of current lending policies for a microfinance institution (MFI) in …/value Until now, the consequences of repayment delinquencies in microfinance lending relationships have hardly been investigated …. This study enhances the understanding of lending policies in microfinance by focussing on relationship aspects and by …

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