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Discrimination in Microfinance: The Role of Credit Officers

Méon, Pierre-Guillaume; Szafarz, Ariane; Labie, Marc - Centre Emile Bernheim, Solvay Brussels School of … - 2009

This paper studies how high-powered incentives may affect credit officers’ discriminatory practices in microfinance …

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Competition and Altruism in Microcredit Markets

Casini, Paolo - European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and … - 2008

We analyze the effects of entry in a previously monopolistic microcredit market characterized by asymmetric information and by institutions that offer only one type of contract. We consider different behavioral assumptions concerning the Incumbent and study their influence on equilibrium...

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Revealed objective functions of Microfinance Institutions: Evidence from Bangladesh

Salim, Mir M. - In: Journal of Development Economics 104 (2013) C, pp. 34-55

This paper discerns between two alternative objective functions for not-for-profit Microfinance Institutions (MFIs …

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Microfinance: A Comprehensive Review of the Existing Literature

Brau, James C.; Woller, Gary M. - In: Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance 9 (2004) 1, pp. 1-28

Although the word finance is in the term microfinance, and the core elements of microfinance are those of the finance … discipline, microfinance has yet to break into the mainstream or entrepreneurial finance literature. The purpose of this article … is to introduce the finance academic community to the discipline of microfinance and microfinance institutions (MFIs). We …

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Microfinance and Women's Empowerment: Do Relationships Between Women Matter? Lessons from rural Southern India

Guérin, Isabelle; Kumar, Santosh; Agier, Isabelle - Centre Emile Bernheim, Solvay Brussels School of … - 2010

In the microfinance industry the idea of “empowerment” is often valued as a means to encourage female emancipation from …

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Female Managers in Hybrid Organizations: Evidence from Financial Cooperatives in Senegal

PERILLEUX, Anaïs; SZAFARZ, Ariane - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2014

This paper brings new insights on gender interaction in the management of hybrid organizations. Our database comes from Union des Mutuelles du Partenariat pour la Mobilisation de l’Epargne et du Crédit au Sénégal (UM-PAMECAS), a Senegalese network made of 38 financial cooperatives providing...

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Micro-finance interventions : tools to combat the worst forms of child labour including trafficking

Kelly, Paula Francis - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 2002

Provides a practical tool for the design and implementation of sustainable microfinance interventions, with a …

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The more the better? : how collateral levels affect credit risk in agricultural microfinance

Müller, Kirsten; Mußhoff, Oliver; Weber, Ron - 2014

investigate determinants of credit risk for agricultural loans disbursed by a Microfinance Institution (MFI) in Azerbaijan. In …

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Contract structure, time preference, and technology adoption

Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Smits, Joeri; Sun, Qigang - 2020

Do constraints to technology adoption vary by behavioral traits? We randomize 150 villages in Bangladesh into being offered standard microcredit, loans with a grace period, the choice between those two contracts, and control. No discernible average effects are detected on the adoption of...

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Crop Minimum Support Price versus Cost Subsidy : Farmer and Consumer Welfare

Chintapalli, Prashant; Tang, Christopher S. - 2021

should the prevailing market price be below the pre-specified MSP. In this paper, we consider a market consisting of infinitesimally small, rational, and strategic farmers(with heterogeneous production costs) who face market and yield uncertainties. Our equilibrium analysis reveals that (i)...

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