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analysed from a gender perspective. The work is based on a case study about the main Tunisian microfinance institution using … microfinance institution after one or several loans, we follow a procedure enabling us to correct the selection bias with panel …Whereas most research into microfinance tends to focus on the impact of access to such services, very little pays …
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The purpose of the article is to investigate whether female presence in microfinance institutions' management team, i … is available from the MIX Market database with original data on the gender composition of MFIs' management team, who … officers improve financial performance in microfinance, while a higher proportion of female board members does not. Our results …
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outcomes, like household head gender, language or education. This calls into question the reliability of the data and the …
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Although microfinance started as a movement to improve women's economic wellbeing through increased female …. We fill this gap by combining data on branch locations of the major microfinance institutions in Bangladesh with … access to credit on women's work; attitudes towards gender, social and employment norms; and psychosocial well-being. Access …
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Although Tanzania has made notable progress in enhancing access to financial services, the gender gap in financial … inclusion persists. This paper examines gender disparities in financial inclusion in Tanzania using descriptive and regression … opting to keep cash at home or save with a saving group. The gender gaps in financial inclusion are attributable to factors …
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Reference to gender in language can lead individuals to draw distinctions between genders and re-inforce traditional … views of gender roles. To test our hypothesis that language gender-marking exerts an influence on the gender gap in … at the individual level. We find the gender gap in the probability of owning a formal account, having access to a formal …
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understanding the role of gender and age in the use of DFS across use cases. To nuance this, the current study analyses data from a … multivariate logit models, controlling for some socio-economic factors, show that in Zimbabwe, gender is not a significant … frequency of use. Besides the findings on gender and age, the study reveals that the level of education, the source of income …
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This paper studies the causal effect of gender bias on access to bank credit. We extract an exogenous measure of gender … data on 6,000 small business firms from 17 countries and find that in countries with higher gender bias, female-owned firms … countries in our sample. Overall, the evidence suggests that in high-gender bias countries, female entrepreneurs are more likely …
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Microfinance industry has grown massively in the past decades. Even if it is commonly considered as an important … development tool, the evidence of the socio-economic impact of microfinance is mixed, regardless of what methodology has been … applied. The purpose of this study is to assess the socio-economic impact of microfinance on the clients of a microfinance …
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Objective – The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of gender, subsidies, and financial capital on … microfinance institutions performance. Methodology/Technique – Multiple linear regressions were used to analyze data. The type of …'s Jember. Findings – The study shows that gender and subsidies have negatively affected to ROA. Once applied physical capital …
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