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2021
This session will bring together research on financial access including the gender gap, inequality (including intra and intergenerational equality), urban vs. rural and the use of digital technologies. The session will explore how the issues associated with financial access overlap with climate finance and whether there are opportunities to tackle both
Toby McCoy +6 more
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This session will bring together research on financial access including the gender gap, inequality (including intra and intergenerational equality), urban vs. rural and the use of digital technologies. The session will explore how the issues associated with financial access overlap with climate finance and whether there are opportunities to tackle both
Toby McCoy +6 more
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2010
Abstract Expanding access to financial services holds the promise to help reduce poverty and spur economic development. But, as a practical matter, commercial banks have faced challenges expanding access to poor and low-income households in developing economies, and nonprofits have had limited reach.
Dean Karlan, Jonathan Morduch
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Abstract Expanding access to financial services holds the promise to help reduce poverty and spur economic development. But, as a practical matter, commercial banks have faced challenges expanding access to poor and low-income households in developing economies, and nonprofits have had limited reach.
Dean Karlan, Jonathan Morduch
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2013
Modern energy services are essential to human development, productivity, competitiveness, and economic growth [1–3]. Despite gains over the last three decades, based on 2010 data, about 1.3 billion people do not have access to electricity and about 2.6 billion people still rely on traditional biomass fuels such as fuelwood, charcoal, agricultural waste,
Koffi Ekouevi, Gabriela Elizondo-Azuela
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Modern energy services are essential to human development, productivity, competitiveness, and economic growth [1–3]. Despite gains over the last three decades, based on 2010 data, about 1.3 billion people do not have access to electricity and about 2.6 billion people still rely on traditional biomass fuels such as fuelwood, charcoal, agricultural waste,
Koffi Ekouevi, Gabriela Elizondo-Azuela
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2017
Microinsurance provides indemnity for those with low income and with limited access to insurance options. Aimed at supporting sustainable means of living for individuals, microinsurance is a market-based practice. Many microinsurance products focus on the famine and drought in Latin America, Africa and Asia and most commonly provided by European ...
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Microinsurance provides indemnity for those with low income and with limited access to insurance options. Aimed at supporting sustainable means of living for individuals, microinsurance is a market-based practice. Many microinsurance products focus on the famine and drought in Latin America, Africa and Asia and most commonly provided by European ...
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Law and firms'access to finance [PDF]
, 2004 Why does a country's legal origin influence its firms'access to finance? Using data from over 4,000 firms in 38 countries, the authors show that firms in countries with French legal origin face significantly higher obstacles in accessing external finance than firms in common law countries. Next, their results indicate that French legal origin countries
Thorsten Beck +2 more
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SMEs access to finance and the value of supplier financing
Spanish Journal of Finance and Accounting / Revista Española de Financiación y Contabilidad, 2017This article examines the relationship between supplier financing and small- and medium-sized firms’ value as well as the variation in the marginal value of supplier financing that arises from diff...
Cristina Martínez-Sola +2 more
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Access to Finance in Kyrgyzstan
International Conference on Eurasian EconomiesThe access to financial services is crucial for economic development and poverty reduction in Kyrgyzstan. There are a number of factors limiting financial inclusion such as financial, social and economic development. Capital shortage and low access to financial services cause difficulties for economic agents’ saving and borrowing.
Ainura Turdalieva, Razia Abdieva
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Regulation and Access to Finance
2011Notwithstanding the financial crisis, housing finance remains a booming industry globally with strong growth potential in developing economies. Especially in the subset of countries dubbed ‘emerging markets’, the sector’s risk environment and available risk management options have changed dramatically in the past two decades reflected by low inflation,
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