Household credit to the poor and its impact on child schooling in peri-urban areas, Vietnam [PDF]
, 2011 This paper uses a novelty dataset of poor households in peri-urban areas in Vietnam to estimate impacts of small loans on child schooling. The Probit and Negative Binomial model estimates roughly indicate no strong evidence of the effect, especially of ...
Doan, Tinh Thanh +2 more
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What is the evidence of the impact of microfinance on the well-being of poor people? [PDF]
, 2011 The concept of microcredit was first introduced in Bangladesh by Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus. Professor Yunus started Grameen Bank (GB) more than 30 years ago with the aim of reducing poverty by providing small loans to the country’s rural ...
Copestake, James G. +5 more
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Effets de l’accès au microcrédit sur la pauvreté multidimensionnelle au Burkina Faso [PDF]
Revue HybridesBurkina Faso is committed to improving the living conditions of its population by 2030 through Axis 4 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which focuses on the socio-demographic characteristics of Burkina Faso households through education, their ...
Saïdou NIKIEMA +2 more
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Loud, Proud and Prosperous! Report on the Mobility International USA International Symposium on Microcredit for Women with Disabilities [PDF]
, 1998 [Excerpt] MIUSA designed the International Symposium on Microcredit for Women with Disabilities in response to recommendations from women leaders with disabilities at WILD, at the Symposium in Beijing, and from our own experience with US-based ...
Mobility International USA (MIUSA)
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Donors' Support for Microcredit as Social Enterprise: A Critial Reappraisal [PDF]
microfinance, microcredit, poverty, microenterprises, donor assistance, aid ...
Nissanke, Machiko
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Impacts of household credit on education and healthcare spending by the poor in peri-urban areas in Vietnam [PDF]
, 2011 There is debate about whether microfinance has positive impacts on education and health for borrowing households in developing countries. To provide evidence for this debate we use a new survey designed to meet the conditions for propensity score ...
Doan, Tinh Thanh +2 more
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SAGE OpenSince the institutionalization of microcredit as the flagship poverty alleviation program, its potential has been under constant scrutiny by practitioners and researchers.
Wajid Khan, Ikram Ullah, Sun Shaorong
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Microfinance institutions and efficiency
, 2004 Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) are special financial institutions. They have both a social nature and a for-profit nature. Their performance has been traditionally measured by means of financial ratios.
Gutiérrez Nieto, Begoña +2 more
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Asymmetric impact of microfinance on economic growth: Evidence from Bosnia and Herzegovina. [PDF]
Heliyon, 2023 Smolo E.
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Behavioral Foundations of Microcredit: Experimental and Survey Evidence From Rural India [PDF]
This paper draws a link between self-control problems and the contractual mechanisms of microcredit. We use a series of “lab experiments in the field” which were designed to elicit measures of time discounting on a sample of 573 individuals in rural ...
Jonathan Morduch +2 more
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