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Microfinance and Moneylenders : Long-Run Effects of MFIs on Informal Credit Market in Bangladesh
Berg, Claudia N. - 2015
Using two surveys from Bangladesh, this paper provides evidence on the effects of microfinance competition on village …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013013330
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Microfinance and Moneylenders : Long-Run Effects of MFIs on Informal Credit Market in Bangladesh
Berg, Claudia N. - 2013
Using two surveys from Bangladesh, this paper provides evidence on the effects of microfinance competition on village …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013077994
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Credit programs for the poor and the nutritional Status of children in rural Bangladesh
Pitt, Mark Martin; Khandker, Shahidur R.; Chowdhury, … - 1998
The impact of group-based credit programs on the nutritional status of children by gender in rural Bangladesh is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011504425
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The Creditworthiness of the Poor : A Model of the Grameen Bank
Kowalik, Michal K. - 2013
theoretical results using data from a household survey from Bangladesh. We show that various measures of expected income are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013094801
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Village funds and access to finance in rural Thailand
Menkhoff, Lukas; Ornsiri Rungruxsirivorn - 2009
This paper examines whether recently introduced village fundsʺ, one of the largest microfinance programs ever … ; microfinance ; credit constraint ; Thailand ; Asia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003846058
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Value Chain Microfinance
Casaburi, Lorenzo; Willis, Jack - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
value chain relationships: value chain microfinance (VCMF). We first explore how VCMF can both overcome barriers to … microfinance studying the demand for and effects of VCMF in credit, insurance, and savings markets. We conclude by highlighting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014468284
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Financial Inclusion : A Case of Village Banks in Malawi
Sohn, Wook; Jombo, Wytone - 2022
This study investigates the determinants of household participation in credit markets in Malawi using merged comprehensive data from the Integrated Household Survey. We find that larger family sizes increase the probability of households accessing credit from village banks, and that higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014258355
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The Impact of Lending to Women on Household Vulnerability and Women's Empowerment : Evidence from India
Garikipati, Supriya - 2006
Evaluation studies routinely find that lending to women benefits their households, they are however vastly divergent in their conclusions regarding its empowering potential. This paper investigates this paradoxical suggestion by examining a case study. Survey data from two drought prone villages...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012733311
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Identification Strategy : A Field Experiment on Dynamic Incentives in Rural Credit Markets
Giné, Xavier - 2010
How do borrowers respond to improvements in a lender's ability to punish defaulters? We report the results of a randomized field experiment in rural Malawi that examines the impact of fingerprinting borrowers in a context where a unique identification system is absent. Fingerprinting allows the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141485
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Impact of rural credit on household welfare : evidence from a long-term panel in Bangladesh
Hossain, Md. Alamgir; Malek, Mohammad Abdul; Yu, Zhengfei - In: Asian development review : studies of Asian and pacific … 40 (2023) 2, pp. 363-397
nationally representative, multipurpose, five-round (1988, 2000, 2004, 2008, and 2014) Mahabub Hossain Panel Data in Bangladesh … microfinance institutes, and informal channels-on household welfare indicators. We find that the long-term impact of access to … progressive lending of some credit sources, especially microfinance institutes, and have implications for the introduction of …
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