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Over the last 35 years, microfinance has been generally regarded as an effective policy tool in the fight against … poverty. Yet, the question of whether access to credit leads to poverty reduction and improved wellbeing remains open. To … address this question, we conduct a systematic review of the quantitative literature of microfinance's impacts in the …
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efficiency and other factors on the poverty status of micro entrepreneurs using logistic regression. The average technical … beverage products. The factors that influence the poverty status of micro-entrepreneurs are technical efficiency, income, KUR …
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Over the last 35 years, microfinance has been generally regarded as an effective policy tool in the fight against … poverty. Yet, the question of whether access to credit leads to poverty reduction and improved wellbeing remains open. To … address this question, we conduct a systematic review of the quantitative literature of microfinance's impacts in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011776445
coefficients, we evaluate Indonesia's three largest social programs. The setting for our evaluation is the launch of Indonesia …
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In 2013, the Government of Indonesia conducted one of the largest information interventions in histo-ry, in an attempt … to further alleviate poverty and as a complement to the Social Protection Card (KPS). Drawing upon administrative data … Indonesia's largest social programs, the Raskin (rice for the poor) and the BLSM (temporary unconditional cash transfers …
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This study was conducted to examine the role of Islamic microfinance on poverty alleviation. The four indicators of … sample of 150 borrowers from 20 Islamic microfinance institutions in Central Java, Indonesia. The questionnaires were … poverty alleviation were used: income levels, children’s education, health care, and business progress. This study used the …
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coefficients, we evaluate Indonesia's three largest social programs. The setting for our evaluation is the launch of Indonesia …
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substitute for financial inclusion in energy poverty reduction in Ghana. Pooled data and two stage least squares techniques are … inclusion in energy poverty mitigation) is based on two main criteria: (i) a positive interactive effect relative to the …
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A decline in poverty generally masks regional disparities that are due to varying efficiency among states. Using a … reduce poverty and its determinants in Bolivia. Our findings reveal that states differ in terms of efficiency, with some … recalibration. We find that when the macroeconomic conditions in Bolivia allow for a 10 percent reduction in the poverty rate …
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Information campaigns aimed at empowering the poor often fall short of meeting their desired aims. We study literacy's role in determining their efficacy. First, exploiting an RD design, we show that receipt of information increased household rice receipts by 30 percentage points. Second, we...
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