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Gendered investment differences among smallholder farmers: evidence from a microcredit programme in western kenya

open access: yesFood Security, 2023
The advent of microcredit programmes in sub-Saharan Africa provides opportunities for rural households to acquire agricultural inputs and consumer goods.
K. Jindo   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Digital innovation in electoral campaigns: the case of microcredit in Podemos

open access: yesPolicy studies, 2023
Crowdfunding and micro-donations for funding political campaigns have been extensively studied, especially in the US. However, digital participatory financing in Europe, with a different regulatory context and relevant public funding, has been ...
F. Lupato, Ariel Jerez, Marco Meloni
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Development of bank microcredit [PDF]

open access: yesThe North American Journal of Economics and Finance, 2020
Abstract We analyze the process by which banks enter the microcredit market while still engaging in traditional credit practices. For this we study a competitive credit market with adverse selection, where lenders are endowed with a screening technology capable of extracting an informative signal about a borrower’s quality if enough time is devoted ...
Luca Gabriele Deidda   +1 more
openaire   +1 more source

MICROCREDIT COVERAGE IN MALAYSIAN MACROECONOMIC CONTEXT: AN EVIDENCE USING PANEL DATA ANALYSIS

open access: yesInternational Journal of Management Studies, 2020
This paper aims to examine the effect of macroeconomic condition on microcredit coverage in Malaysia. The Microcredit Organizations (MO) was established to complement the mainstream financial institutions but challenges remain with microcredit ...
Thilagarani Selvaraj   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Determinants of farmers’ access to microcredit from cooperative societies in Ondo state, Nigeria

open access: yesInternational Journal of Agricultural Research, Innovation and Technology, 2022
The study examined the determinants of farmers’ access to microcredit from cooperative societies in Ondo state. A multistage sampling technique was used to obtain data from 100 respondents. Primary data was collected for the purpose of the study. We used
A. Kolapo   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Herd Behavior and Its Effects on Default in Chinese Microcredit

open access: yesComplexity, 2021
Herd behavior means a mode of behavior will be infected among the individuals in a group, and its existence and influence in specific financial market are uncertain.
Ya Bu, Shouzhe Zhang, Anzhong Huang
doaj   +1 more source

COVID-19 and Microcredit: Dissecting an NGO’s Training, Financial Support, and Women Empowerment Programmes

open access: yesThe social science, 2022
This paper reports the findings from a microcredit (financial inclusion) scheme that has been operated by a non-governmental organization since 2012 in a local community in Ghana, and sustained through the COVID-19 pandemic.
Senyo Dotsey
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A decomposition analysis of microcredit welfare gaps in Ghana. A gender analysis

open access: yesSocial Sciences and Humanities Open, 2023
The literature is replete with studies suggesting that the microcredit market is expanding with varying degrees of impact on male and female clients. The paper investigates the extent to which differences in loan use behaviour and loan amount received ...
Kofi Amanor   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Microcredit Impact on Socio-Economic Development and Women Empowerment in Low-Income Countries: Evidence from Yemen

open access: yesSustainability, 2021
Microcredit financing is extensively considered as an effective development method for poverty mitigation and women empowerment. Nevertheless, relevant studies reflected opposing outcomes on microfinance effects consisting of positive, zero, and negative
S. Al-shami   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Microfinance Institutions: Instrumental for Promoting Financial Inclusion [PDF]

open access: yesFinancial Markets, Institutions and Risks, 2021
This opinion paper provides a general overview of microfinance / microcredit which is considered one the major program to minimize the poverty, women empowerment and to socioeconomically inclusive society.
Dr. Man Bahadur BK, Medani P. Bhandari
doaj   +1 more source

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