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mobilisation. After analysing the opportunities for MFIs to succeed in transforming remittances receivers into clients, the paper … empirically tests whether MFIs operating on the remittances market have a significantly higher level of savings than others …
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savings mobilization and lending by Microfinance Institutions. The findings support the hypothesis that employee …
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excluded. These may include savings, insurances, remittances, and credit. Microfinance became the most dominant method for … achieving financial inclusion. However, different microfinance schools of thought recommend opposite ways for attaining … released data from the Global Findex database. Second, focusing on microfinance as the dominant vehicle for achieving financial …
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Providing the poor access to finance, microcredit is supposed to alleviate poverty and can be expected to reduce income inequality in developing countries. Drawing on a primary survey of 670 borrower households in Cairo in 2010, we run a number of cross-sectional regressions and simulations to...
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In policy discussions, it has frequently been claimed that migrants' remittances could function as a 'catalyst' for … receiver of remittances worldwide. Using the Mexican Family Life Survey panel (MxFLS) for 2002 and 2005, the results from the … and important for microfinance institutions, but not for traditional banks. …
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In policy discussions, it has frequently been claimed that migrants' remittances could function as a catalyst for … receiver of remittances worldwide. Using the Mexican Family Life Survey panel (MxFLS) for 2002 and 2005, the results from the … fixed effects logit model show that receiving remittances is strongly correlated with the ownership of savings accounts and …
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In policy discussions, it has frequently been claimed that migrants' remittances could function as a catalyst for … receiver of remittances worldwide. Using the Mexican Family Life Survey panel (MxFLS) for 2002 and 2005, the results from the … fixed effects logit model show that receiving remittances is strongly correlated with the ownership of savings accounts and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010956172
In policy discussions, it has frequently been claimed that migrants' remittances could function as a 'catalyst' for … receiver of remittances worldwide. Using the Mexican Family Life Survey panel (MxFLS) for 2002 and 2005, the results from the … and important for microfinance institutions, but not for traditional banks. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009226853
Prior studies of the diversification-driven cost savings from the joint provision of credit and deposits in … microfinance usually ignore the multi-way heterogeneity across MFIs which vary substantially in size, business model, target … accommodating multiple heterogeneity, we show that the typical measurement of economies of diversification at the mean provides an …
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This study investigates the impact of remittances on credit markets in Senegal. The findings show that remittances and … credit markets are complements; namely, the receipt of remittances increases the likelihood of having a loan in a household …. This result is robust after controlling for the potential endogeneity of remittances through household fixed effects and an …
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