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With maturity in the microfinance market in South Asia, it is observed that some microfinance members' needs grow … beyond the boundaries of traditional microfinance group loans. In addition, there are other small enterprises whose needs are … not met by microfinance institutions or commercial banks. It is important to address the financing needs of these firms …
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though they relax financing constraints. We relate this insight to the limited success of group-based microfinance in … loans ; social ties ; altruism ; peer-to-peer lending ; small business ; entrepreneurial finance ; microfinance ; missing …
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arising from the undeniable specificity of the entire SME sector and large companies operating in Poland. …
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development and social progress. In Morocco, the fact that Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) had provided basic financial services …
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This study uses MFIs as a unit of analysis to examine the factors of human, financial and social capital that increase the financing of microenterprises’ identification of opportunities and exploitation in Cameroon .To attain this objective, a questionnaire was used to collect data from 207...
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Microcredit is a crucial tool for economic empowerment of women. In Kenya, the microcredit industry has supported more than 3 million small and medium enterprises for close to 30 years. Kenya Women Finance Trust is a leading microcredit institution dealing exclusively with financing needs of...
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analyzes how these variables are connected in the context of a high risk environment. Using data from micro-finance clients in …
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A large literature showed that small firms experience difficulties in accessing the credit market due to informational asymmetries; these may be mitigated by collateral or relationship lending, possibilities often precluded to small business. We investigate the effect on small business finance...
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(SMEs) in the world. The paper provides empirical evidence on the drivers of SME access to finance for a large sample of … development and better governance would help close the SME financial inclusion gap between MENAP and CCA regions and the best …
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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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