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Rules of the Game and Efficacy of Public Microcredit Schemes: Evidence from Selected Borrowers in Malawi

Eastern African Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences
This paper contributes to the scholarly debates that question the efficacy of microcredit schemes in development programming. Dominant political economy debates posit that microcredit schemes have failed to achieve the envisaged financial inclusion and ...
Richard Zidana, Bryson Nkhoma, Victor Kasulo   +2 more
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Impact of microcredit on the performance of micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in Yemen

Cogent Economics & Finance
This study examines the impact of microcredit on the performance of Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) in Yemen, focusing on the mediating role of beneficiary satisfaction.
Osamah Ahmed AL-Maamari, Nadeem Aljonaid, Noufal Alrefaei   +2 more
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Youth Entrepreneurship, Credit Access and Post‐Disaster Business Recovery: Evidence From Informal Food Enterprises in Ghana

Journal of International Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how access to finance (credit access) influences business recovery and entrepreneurial performance among youth‐led informal food enterprises in Ghana, with implications for financial inclusion, entrepreneurial ability and post‐crisis business resilience in developing economies.
Bernard Kwamena Cobbina Essel, Ebenezer Donkor, Ayat Ullah, Faizal Adams, Miroslava Bavorova   +4 more
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A Framework for Understanding and Evaluating Localization: The Case of HelpAge International

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Many transnational non‐governmental organizations (TNGOs) are reevaluating their organizational forms and norms as they pursue localization. Localization itself is a contested and multifaceted concept, however, complicating the design, implementation, and evaluation of localization efforts.
Hans Peter Schmitz, George E. Mitchell
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More than credit: Exploring associations between microcredit programs and maternal and reproductive health service utilization in India

SSM: Population Health, 2019
Microcredit programs are increasingly popular interventions aimed at enabling women's economic empowerment in low- and middle-income countries. Resultant improved income, and social support from co-members of microcredit programs, may lead to increased ...
Nabamallika Dehingia, Abhishek Singh, Anita Raj, Lotus McDougal   +3 more
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Microcredit and the Financial Frontiers of Racial Neoliberalism

Journal of Law and Political Economy, 2022
Over the past decades of neoliberal globalization, microcredit has been a widely supported project that claims to address global poverty, inequality, and uneven development through debt-based solutions involving small interest-bearing loans that can be ...
Gil Gott
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Good debts, bad debts: Microcredit and managing debt in rural south India

Journal of Agrarian Change, 2020
This paper engages with debates around microcredit, once a development success story, but now much critiqued. Arguing that microcredit can only be understood within the wider context of debt, we draw on ethnographic material from two villages in Tamil ...
G. Carswell, G. De Neve, S. Ponnarasu
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Between Emancipation and Domination? A Critical Analysis of Empowerment in a Women‐Only Development Program in Costa Rica's Coffee Sector

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Female empowerment and its use in development contexts has histories in coloniality. Gender programs typically imply an individualistic, depoliticized concept. This article examines whether such initiatives can be supportive for empowerment. We apply an embedded qualitative case study of Bean Voyage's program to support female coffee producers
Annelie M. Gütte, Maria Busse, Stefan Sieber, Michelle Bonatti   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

When Small is Big: Microcredit and Economic Development [PDF]

Technology Innovation Management Review, 2010
Microcredit - the extension of small loans - gives people who would otherwise not have access to credit the opportunity to begin or expand businesses or to pursue job-specific training. These borrowers lack the income, credit history, assets, or security
George Brown
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Investigating the Role of Microcredit on Agricultural Output in Rural-Bangladesh [PDF]

Annals of the University of Craiova for Journalism, Communication and Management
Microcredit or Microfinance is being considered as one of the investment-sources for local farmers who want to cultivate their land. It is highly difficult for local-farmers to collect fund for field-level investment, these farmers select micro-credit ...
Md. Imrul Hasan, Tanbir Hossain, Sree. Dip Kumar Moholdar, Md. Sohel Rana   +3 more
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