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2013
Microcredit and microfinance can be included in the branch of ethical finance that supports the struggle against poverty and financial exclusion. The term ‘microfinance’ is usually used to identify those financial services that are offered not only to clients with low income or none, but also to individuals who have difficulty in accessing basic ...
MANGO, Fabiomassimo, LA TORRE, Mario
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Microcredit and microfinance can be included in the branch of ethical finance that supports the struggle against poverty and financial exclusion. The term ‘microfinance’ is usually used to identify those financial services that are offered not only to clients with low income or none, but also to individuals who have difficulty in accessing basic ...
MANGO, Fabiomassimo, LA TORRE, Mario
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011
We document the level, type, and severity of crime in rural Bangladesh. Crime affected 36% of the households. The average cost of crime was worth two weeks' household consumption. We then study how microcredit affects crime. Our theoretical model shows how microcredit may increase cost of crime at the village level while reducing it for borrowers.
Khondker Aktaruzzaman +2 more
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We document the level, type, and severity of crime in rural Bangladesh. Crime affected 36% of the households. The average cost of crime was worth two weeks' household consumption. We then study how microcredit affects crime. Our theoretical model shows how microcredit may increase cost of crime at the village level while reducing it for borrowers.
Khondker Aktaruzzaman +2 more
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Information Sharing in a Competitive Microcredit Market
, 2020We analyze contract-level data on approved and rejected microloans to assess the impact of a new credit registry in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a country with a competitive microcredit market. Our findings are threefold.
J. Bos, R. de Haas, Matteo Millone
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Women and Microcredit in Rural Bangladesh
, 2019Microcredit has recently become the new development mantra for international donors, international financial institutions, and national development programs.
Aminur Rahman
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Microcredit: equilibrium effects
Oxford Review of Economic PolicyAbstract Changes to access to credit can potentially cause changes to the returns to various factors—general equilibrium (GE) effects. This paper considers changes in wages, prices of goods and services, interest rates, and in the returns to forming or maintaining social ties. Such GE effects can lead to positive and/or negative indirect
Aanchal Bagga, Cynthia Kinnan
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International Journal of Applied Philosophy, 2019
An analysis of the specific yogurt and phone microcredit schemes in Bangladesh is made along three lines of argument. It is important to note that these schemes are pulled together by NGO’s (non-governmental organizations) to assist women and children in developing areas to attain financial independence—the first line employs leftist criticism of the ...
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An analysis of the specific yogurt and phone microcredit schemes in Bangladesh is made along three lines of argument. It is important to note that these schemes are pulled together by NGO’s (non-governmental organizations) to assist women and children in developing areas to attain financial independence—the first line employs leftist criticism of the ...
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Hierarchical microcredit networks
International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 2018Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the microcredit system, social networks within self-help groups (SHGs) and micro-entrepreneurial activities at the grassroots aiming at well-being, sustainability and income generation. The empirical study took place in Phnom Penh.
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Financing new entrepreneurship: Credit or microcredit?
Economics Letters, 2022Moh’d Al-Azzam, Lanouar Charfeddine
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How Does Microcredit Work? Testing the Theories of Microcredit. [PDF]
Economists have used a great deal of ingenuity to delve underneath the practice of microcredit and understand the logic that underlies its operations. There is no single theory, however. What we have instead is a bewildering variety of theories; the only common thread binding most of them is the idea that the way microcredit is delivered in practice ...
S.R. Osmani, Wahiduddin Mahmud
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