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The Income Augmenting and Budget Tightening Impacts of Microfinance: Theory and Evidence from Pakistan

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Since 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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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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The Impact of Microcredit on the Poor in Bangladesh: Revisiting the Evidence [PDF]

The most-noted studies on the impact of microcredit on households are based on a survey fielded in Bangladesh in the 1990s. Contradictions among them have produced lasting controversy and confusion. Pitt and Khandker (PK, 1998) apply a quasi-experimental
David Roodman, Jonathan Morduch
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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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Rural micro-credit model design and credit risk assessment via improved LSTM algorithm. [PDF]

PeerJ Comput Sci, 2023
Gao X, Yang X, Zhao Y.
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"Microcredit in Spain"

Revista de Fomento Social, 2007
Reseña de la obra de: RICO GARRIDO, Silvia, LACALLE CALDERÓN, Maricruz, MÁRQUEZ VIGIL, Javier y DURÁN NAVARRO, Jaime (2007) Microcredit in Spain , Madrid, Foro Nantik Lum de Microfinanzas (European Microfinance network), 142 pp.
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Public Policy on Microfinance in South America [PDF]

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of public policies in various countries of South America on the development of microfinance (MF). A broad definition of public policy has been used in this work, as it covers specific legislation seeking
Delfiner, Miguel Tomas, Gomez, Anabela, Peron, Silvana   +2 more
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Household access to microcredit and children's food security in rural Malawi: a gender perspective [PDF]

, 2008
Using data from the 1995 Malawi Financial Markets and Food Security Survey, this study seeks to discover if women's relative control over household resources or intra-household bargaining power in rural Malawi, gauged by their access to microcredit ...
Guha-Khasnobis, Basudeb, Hazarika, Gautam   +1 more
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Graduation from poverty condition of HAOR (seasonal wetland) people of Bangladesh: simultaneous effects of microcredits, SSNPs, flood and COVID-19

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Background 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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Microrofinance – a possible anticrisis measure? [PDF]

Microfinance activity is recognized – at the level of European institutions and member states - as an area with a significant impact on entrepreneurship, economic growth and social inclusion.
Laura GIURCA VASILESCU
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