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Safe Money: Building Effective Credit Unions in Latin America Title: Dinero seguro: Desarrollo de cooperativas de ahorro y crédito eficaces en América Latina
Marulanda, Beatriz; Loubière, Jacques Trigo; … - Inter-American Development Bank
Policymakers in Latin America increasingly are turning to policies that have high economic rates of return and a favorable impact on income distribution. By providing financial services to small businesses and poor households -which normally lack such services- credit unions help secure growth...
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Mexico; Financial Sector Assessment Program Update: Technical Note: Strategic Issues in Development Bank Reform
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2007
This technical note on strategic issues in Development Bank (DB) reform for Mexico examines advances in the area of DB and funds in 2000–05. There have been significant but uneven changes in the institutional setting, instruments, transparency of subsidies, and performance behavior of DBs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011243205
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Microfinance and Poverty: Questioning the Conventional Wisdom Title: Microfinanzas y pobreza: ¿Son válidas las ideas preconcebidas?
Gulli, Hege - Inter-American Development Bank
Microfinance and Poverty probes a set of assumptions that have arisen about microfinance and poverty reduction and that have become the conventional wisdom, although they have not been proven. These assumptions are examined through a review and analysis of theoretical and applied literature on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943570
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Microfinance and Poverty: Questioning the Conventional Wisdom Title: Microfinanzas y pobreza: ¿Son válidas las ideas preconcebidas?
Gulli, Hege - Inter-American Development Bank
Microfinance and Poverty probes a set of assumptions that have arisen about microfinance and poverty reduction and that have become the conventional wisdom, although they have not been proven. These assumptions are examined through a review and analysis of theoretical and applied literature on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010772492
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How credit unions affect the profitability of Brazilian commercial banks?
Garcia, Alexandre Schwinden; Gonzaga, André Lucas Moreira - In: The quarterly review of economics and finance 93 (2024), pp. 190-209
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Money Matters: Reaching Women Microentrepreneurs with Financial Services Title: Dinero que cuenta: Servicios financieros al alcance de la mujer microempresaria
Almeyda-Stemper, Gloria - Inter-American Development Bank
For women microentrepreneurs, access to financial services matters. It is critical to their ability to make productive investments in their businesses. As part of IDB's efforts to strengthen women's roles in economic development, the Women in Development Unit undertook a study to analyze the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943529
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Money Matters: Reaching Women Microentrepreneurs with Financial Services Title: Dinero que cuenta: Servicios financieros al alcance de la mujer microempresaria
Almeyda-Stemper, Gloria - Inter-American Development Bank
For women microentrepreneurs, access to financial services matters. It is critical to their ability to make productive investments in their businesses. As part of IDB's efforts to strengthen women's roles in economic development, the Women in Development Unit undertook a study to analyze the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010772455
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El sector informal en México. Hechos y explicaciones fundamentales
Loayza, Norman; Sugawara, Naotaka - In: El Trimestre Económico LXXVI (4) (2009) 304, pp. 887-920
Adopting a legal definition of informality, this paper studies the causes of informality in general and with a particular application to Mexico. It starts with a discussion on the definition and measures of informality. It then argues and provides evidence that informality is not only a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008616819
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Financial inclusion indicators affect profitability of Jordanian commercial banks : panel data analysis
Al-Eitan, Ghaith N.; Al-Own, Bassam; Bani-Khalid, Tareq - In: Economies : open access journal 10 (2022) 2, pp. 1-13
; however, it is still unclear whether financial inclusion increases bank profitability. The study assumes that financial … decreases the Jordanian banks' profitability despite the fact that the financial services and access to them have no significant … influence upon such profitability. The major profitability drivers examined in this study comprised financial inclusion and …
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Antigua and Barbuda; 2007 Article IV Consultation-Staff Report; Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Authorities of Antigua and Barbuda
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2008
This 2007 Article IV Consultation highlights that macroeconomic outcomes for Antigua and Barbuda have strengthened significantly in recent years. Real GDP growth averaged 5 percent during 2003–05, and is estimated to have reached 12 percent in 2006. There has been progress in implementing...
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