Why isn't there more Financial Intermediation in Developing Countries? [PDF]
Financial intermediation, Mutual insurance , Safety nets , Microfinance ...
Conning, Jonathan, Kevane, Michael
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Blended Value Investing: Capital Opportunities for Social and Environmental Impact [PDF]
, 2006 This paper is offered not as a fully comprehensive survey of the emerging area of blended value investing, but rather as a set of examples of how such investing practices are being developed and applied around the world.
Gary Mulhair +2 more
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Giving credit to the microlenders. Formal microlending, credit constraints and adverse selection: a case study of shrimp farmers in Bangladesh [PDF]
Smallholder farmers have long been denied access to formal credit, largely because of the high administrative fees associated with loans. A possible solution to this problem, which has become increasingly popular, is the use of microcredit financing ...
Andersson, Camilla I.M. +3 more
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Medium and Long-Term Participation in Microcredit: An Evaluation Using a New Panel Dataset from Bangladesh [PDF]
The objective of this paper is to estimate the impacts of medium- and long-term participation in microcredit programs. It utilises a new and large panel dataset collected from treatment and control households from 1997 to 2005.
Islam, Asadul
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Expanding Microenterprise Credit Access: Using Randomized Supply Decisions to Estimate the Impacts in Manila [PDF]
Microcredit seeks to promote business growth and improve well-being by expanding access to credit. We use a field experiment and follow-up survey to measure impacts of a credit expansion for microentrepreneurs in Manila.
Dean Karlan, Jonathan Zinman
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Large Farms and Small Businesses: The difficult path toward development in rural China [PDF]
, 2010 The "Chinese Economic Miracle" of sustained growth since the 1970s has been thoroughly explored by many economists. So, too, has the obvious dichotomy between China's urban industrial sector and its rural agrarian economy.
Nelson, Adam T
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Dynamics of market share in the microfinance industry in Bangladesh [PDF]
We discuss evidence that the microcredit industry in Bangladesh has seen emergence of large variations in the size of the microfinance institutions operating in the market-- on the one hand, there are large national-level MFIs, while on the other hand ...
Khalily, M. A. Baqui +2 more
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Discover Social Science and HealthBackground The HAOR region, a 19,998 square kilometer wetland ecosystem in northeastern Bangladesh, is renowned for its rich fishing, biodiversity, and boro-rice cultivation.
Md Zakir Hossain, Roushni Rafa Majumder
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Collateral and risk sharing in group lending: evidence from an urban microcredit program [PDF]
, 2005 Empirical research on group lending is extensive, but without allowance for collateral to mitigate strategic default. Indeed, lack of credit access has motivated microcredit in rural areas of developing countries, where agents with collateral are very ...
Kugler, Maurice, Oppes, Rossella
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A socioeconomic approach to the profile of microcredit holders from the Hispanic minority in the USA. [PDF]
Financ Innov, 2023 Cruz Rambaud S +2 more
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