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Impact of microcredit on the household income and expenditure of the fish farmers: Bangladesh perspective

Aquaculture Economics & Management, 2021
Access to credit is a major limitation for small-scale fish farmers in Bangladesh in pursuing their fish farming activities. One attempted remedy is that NGOs have created microcredit facilities to address this limitation. This study empirically assesses
Kazi Tanvir Mahmud, A. Haque, I. Wahid, A. Parvez, Fahima Kabir   +4 more
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Microcredit's effects on household’s Bangladeshi perspective on fish producers’ earnings and expenses

World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews
Purpose: The primary objective of this research is to conduct an assessment of how access to microcredit facilities influences household expenses and income patterns among fish farmers in Bangladesh. Design/methodology/approach: Using data collected from
Shuvo Kumar Mallik
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Impact of Microcredit on Employment Generation and Empowerment of Rural Women in India

, 2020
This study examines the responsibility of microfinance institutions towards changes in the livelihood practices of the borrowers. Considering a total of 350 borrowers of West Bengal, the impact of microfinance on their lives has been observed empirically
Srimoyee Datta, T. N. Sahu
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The Mediating Influence of Motivation on Microcredit Training and Capital Creation

Journal of Poverty, 2021
Since many lives and livelihoods have been devastated by Covid-19 in 2020, microcredit provides loans to the poor who do not qualify for traditional bank loans has become an important aid for poverty reduction.
Sheikh Ashiqurrahman Prince, I. Wahid, H. Khan   +2 more
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Does Microcredit Really Matter for Healthcare Expenditure of the Poor Fish-Farmers? Perspective from Rural Bangladesh

Journal of Poverty, 2020
The prime objective of this study was to assess the impact of microcredit on the household health care expenditure of the fish farmers in Bangladesh. Primary data was collected from the landless, marginal and small fish farmers from Tangail and Gazipur ...
Kazi Tanvir Mahmud, David Hilton
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Climate shocks and adaptation strategies in coastal Bangladesh: does microcredit have a part to play?

Climate and Development, 2020
Microcredit has become a component of global development. Recently, the climate change and disaster community have proposed that it may be able to facilitate climate change adaptation, but whether this is the case remains under-researched.
J. Jordan
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The impact of microcredit borrowing on household consumption in Bangladesh

, 2020
The rapid expansion of microcredit in recent years renders knowledge of its impact on poverty critical. Unfortunately, empirical investigations have been limited by endogeneity issues, and randomized controlled trials suffer from a lack of power.
Elizabeth Schroeder
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Microcredit in Prefamine Ireland

Explorations in Economic History, 1997
Abstract Hundreds of independent, local, quasi-charitable microcredit societies, or “loan funds,” were lending to as many as 20% of Irish households in the mid-19th century. Their goal was to relieve poverty by providing credit to the “industrious poor” at competitive interest rates without public funding.
Aidan Hollis, Arthur Sweetman
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Performance drivers of women-owned microcredit funded enterprises in Tanzania

, 2020
The purpose of this paper is to investigate performance drivers of women-owned businesses that are funded primarily through microcredit. It draws on Storey’s theory of small business growth and family embeddedness axiom to examine the factors that drive ...
C. Tundui, H. Tundui
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Does Microcredit Improve Rural Households’ Social Network? Evidence from Vietnam

, 2020
Although microcredit targets both financial and, more importantly, social returns, it is unclear in existing literature that whether participating in microcredit programs fosters social network.
Chung Thanh Phan, Sizhong Sun, Zhang-yue Zhou, R. Beg   +3 more
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