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Poverty and wellbeing impacts of microfinance : what do we know?

Maîtrot, Mathilde; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel - 2017

Over the last 35 years, microfinance has been generally regarded as an effective policy tool in the fight against … address this question, we conduct a systematic review of the quantitative literature of microfinance's impacts in the … the limited comparability of outcomes and the heterogeneity of microfinance-lending technologies, together with a …

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Business training with a better-informed lender : theory and evidence from microcredit in France

Bourlès, Renaud; Cozarenco, Anastasia; Henriet, Dominique - In: Annals of economics and statistics 148 (2022), pp. 65-108

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Complementing business training with access to finance : evidence from SMEs in Kenya

Ashraf, Anik; Lyons, Elizabeth - 2023

This paper investigates the complementarity between business training and access to financial capital for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Kenya. All participants in a business training program are offered training. One-third of participants are offered loans immediately after training...

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Complementing business training with access to finance : evidence from SMEs in Kenya

Ashraf, Anik; Lyons, Elizabeth - 2023

In this paper, we study the complementarity between business training and access to financial capital for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Kenya. All participants in a business training program are offered training. One-third of participants are offered loans immediately after training...

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Leveraging SME finance through value chains in landlocked CAREC countries : overview

Morgan, Peter J.; Nurgaliyeva, Akerke; Kydyrbayev, Dossym - 2019

This study takes stock of the challenges faced by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the CAREC landlocked economies in terms of their access to finance resulting from demand-side, supply-side and institutional constraints. This includes identifying cultural, procedural, institutional...

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Problems and opportunities for leveraging SME finance through value chains in Azerbaijan

Aliyev, Samir - 2019

The paper discusses state, regulative framework, and recent developments in leveraging access to finance for micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in the Kyrgyz Republic through global value chain (GVC) examples in the Kyrgyz Republic. Access to finance in the Kyrgyz Republic is...

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Towards a plural history of microfinance

Copestake, James (contributor); … - 2015

This paper is concerned with the recent history of microfinance, both for itself and as a case study of the evolution … applauded the successes of microfinance in expanding financial market opportunities; and a political economy critique that … India, before turning to the potential for a more inductive and plural account. A more plural history of microfinance …

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What impact does microfinance have on rural livelihood? : a comparison of governmental and non-governmental microfinance programs in Bangladesh

Mazumder, Mohummed Shofi Ullah; Lu, Wencong - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 68 (2015), pp. 336-354

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The ethical crisis in microfinance : issues, findings, and implications

Hudon, Marek; Sandberg, Joakim - In: Business ethics quarterly : the journal of the Society … 23 (2013) 4, pp. 561-589

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Microfinance and poverty alleviation

Augsburg, Britta; Haas, Ralph de; Harmgart, Heike; … - 2013

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