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'Evaluating' microfinance : academic irrelevance
Rashid, Salim - 2012
The choice of Microfinance (MF) by the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) as the primary means of poverty alleviation … to take a fresh look and start from first principles to clear the air. Microfinance is micro finance---it is finance writ … small. If finance works, microfinance works. Much of the difficulty has been created by academics and arises from scholars …
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Group lending or individual lending? : evidence from a randomised field experiment in Mongolia
Attanasio, Orazio P.; Augsburg, Britta; Haas, Ralph de; … - 2011
Although microfinance institutions across the world are moving from group lending towards individual lending, this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009388959
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Mobile banking and financial inclusion : the regulatory lessons
Klein, Michael; Mayer, Colin P. - 2011
regulation more generally in developed as well as developing economies. -- Banking ; Regulation ; Microfinance ; Payments System …
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Does self help group participation lead to asset creation?
Swain, Ranjula Bali (contributor);  … - 2008
Self Help Groups (SHGs) are unique in that they are mainly NGO-formed microfinance groups but later funded by commercial … effect. -- Asset creation ; microfinance ; impact ; Self Help Groups …
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Microcredit and poverty reduction in Bangladesh : beyond publication bias, does genuine effect exist?
Awaworyi Churchill, Sefa; Korankye Danso, Jeffrey; … - 2015
We review the empirical evidence on the impact of microcredit on poverty in Bangladesh. Drawing on evidence from seven empirical studies with 306 estimates, we examine the impact of microcredit on three proxies of poverty - income, assets and consumption/expenditure. After addressing issues of...
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The determinants of interest rates in microbanks : age and scale
Nwachukwu, Jacinta C.; Asongu, Simplice A. - 2015
This study investigates the legitimacy of the relatively high interest rates charged by those microfinance institutions …
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Assessing mandated credit programs : case study of the Magna Carta in the Philippines
Khor, Niny; Jacildo, Ryan; Tacneng, Ruth - 2015
We examine the effects of a mandated credit program to small and medium enterprises in the Philippines (Magna Carta Law) using a panel dataset compiled from official data published by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas. The final sample of 109 financial institutions represented over 90% of total...
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Credit elasticities in less-developed economies : implications for microfinance
Karlan, Dean; Zinman, Jonathan - In: The American economic review 98 (2008) 3, pp. 1040-1068
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Financial Inclusion in India
Madurai, Karthikeyan Kothandaraman - 2011
Financial Inclusion is delivery of banking services at an affordable cost to the vast sections of disadvantaged and low income groups. The main focus of financial inclusion in India is to promote sustainable development and generating employment in rural areas for the rural population. Out of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131182
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Financial Inclusion in India
Madurai, Karthikeyan Kothandaraman - 2011
Financial Inclusion is delivery of banking services at an affordable cost to the vast sections of disadvantaged and low income groups. The main focus of financial inclusion in India is to promote sustainable development and generating employment in rural areas for the rural population. Out of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131184