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Microfinance programs like Self Help Group Bank linkage program (SHG), aim to empower women through provision of … the most significant factors in empowering women. -- microfinance ; impact ; women empowerment …
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Firms spend billions of dollars each year advertising consumer products in order to influence demand. Much of these outlays are on the creative design of advertising content. Creative content often uses nuances of presentation and framing that have large effects on consumer decision making in...
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Following recent literature, we hypothesise that saving and borrowing among microfinance clients are substitutes …
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Microcredit is an innovative financial tool designed to reduce poverty and fix credit market imperfections. We use experimental measures of time discounting and risk aversion for villagers in south India to highlight behavioral features of microcredit. Conditional on borrowing from any source,...
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address this question through a randomized experiment with 799 microfinance clients holding microbusinesses in India. In … treated branches, borrowers select between the standard rigid microfinance contract and a more expensive innovative contract …
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success of microfinance around the world, a large number of commercial banks have made a profitable business out of this … sector. This paper explores various business models by commercial banks in microfinance and provides policy implications for …
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factors shaping the market entry of rural microfinance institutions across time and space. We provide empirical evidence for …
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competition between a bank and a microfinance institution (MFI), geographical distance and transportation costs alone are no …
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We analyze the relationship between Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) and external donors, with the aim of contributing … to the debate on "mission drift" in microfinance. We assume that both the donor and the MFI are pro-poor, possibly at …
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