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Microcredit, labour, and poverty impacts in urban Mexico [PDF]
Improved household accessibility to credit is identified as a significant determinant of intra-household re-allocation of labour resources with important implications for productivity, income, and poverty status.
Mosley, Paul, Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel
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Household access to microcredit and child work in rural Malawi [PDF]
, 2005 This paper examines the effect of household access to microcredit upon work by seven to eleven year old children in rural Malawi. Given that microcredit organizations foster household enterprises wherein much child labor is engaged, this paper aims to ...
Hazarika, Gautam, Sarangi, Sudipta
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Risk behaviour and group formation in microcredit groups in Eritrea [PDF]
We conducted a survey in 2001 among members and group leaders of borrowers who accessed loans from two microcredit programs in Eritrea. Using the results from this survey, this paper aims to provide new insights into the empirical relevance of the ...
Lensink, Robert, Mehrteab, Habteab T.
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A State of the Art of Self Help Groups in India [PDF]
, 2011 This paper considers the strategies of self help group for micro-enterprise development in rural areas. It seeks to answer the question of whether and under which conditions self help groups are an effective vehicle for organizing and representing local ...
Jongerden, J.P. +2 more
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Microcredit and Adoption of the Improved Rice Varieties in Rural Vietnam
Tạp chí Khoa học Đại học Mở Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh - Kinh tế và Quản trị kinh doanh, 2020 The objective of this research is to investigate the effect of microcredit on farmers’ adoption of the improved rice varieties in Vietnam. This research applies Double-hurdle (two-stage) model and a large-scale dataset from Vietnam Access to Resources ...
Nguyễn Hữu Dũng +1 more
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Competition and microcredit interest rates: international evidence
Empirical Economics, 2019 The limited number of existing papers that link competition among microfinance institutions (MFIs) and microcredit interest rates, provide inconclusive and counterintuitive results.
Moh’d Al-Azzam +1 more
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Potential Contribution of Sharia Micro Financing on Poverty Reduction in Slum Communities in Makassar [PDF]
, 2019 Poverty is a problem faced by many countries. A country that has a high number of poor people, will always face various cases as a result of poverty, namely low education, high unemployment, health problems, criminal cases and prone to security problems.
Hasan, H. A. (Hurriah) +1 more
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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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Financial Innovation, 2017 Background This study examined the determinants of loan repayment among microcredit finance group members in Delta State, Nigeria. Methods To capture the determinants of loan repayment in the study area, a total of 48 microcredit groups and 300 ...
Solomon Enimu +2 more
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The Limitations of Microcredit for Promoting Microenterprises in Bangladesh
, 2019 Microcredit is regarded as a tool for poverty alleviation. A stereotyped delivery system is designed and used for promoting and serving survival- and subsistencelevel economic activities, particularly for poor female clients.
Md. Mahmudul Alam, R. Molla
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