Microcredit, labour, and poverty impacts in urban Mexico [PDF]
Improved household accessibility to credit is identified as a significant determinant of intra-household re-allocation of labour resources with important implications for productivity, income, and poverty status.
Mosley, Paul, Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel
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What is the evidence of the impact of microfinance on the well-being of poor people? [PDF]
, 2011 The concept of microcredit was first introduced in Bangladesh by Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus. Professor Yunus started Grameen Bank (GB) more than 30 years ago with the aim of reducing poverty by providing small loans to the country’s rural ...
Copestake, James G. +5 more
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Generic machine learning inference on heterogenous treatment effects in randomized experiments [PDF]
, 2017 We propose strategies to estimate and make inference on key features of heterogeneous effects in randomized experiments. These key features include best linear predictors of the effects using machine learning proxies, average effects sorted by impact ...
Chernozhukov, Victor +3 more
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Risk behaviour and group formation in microcredit groups in Eritrea [PDF]
We conducted a survey in 2001 among members and group leaders of borrowers who accessed loans from two microcredit programs in Eritrea. Using the results from this survey, this paper aims to provide new insights into the empirical relevance of the ...
Lensink, Robert, Mehrteab, Habteab T.
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Microcredit and Adoption of the Improved Rice Varieties in Rural Vietnam
Tạp chí Khoa học Đại học Mở Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh - Kinh tế và Quản trị kinh doanh, 2020 The objective of this research is to investigate the effect of microcredit on farmers’ adoption of the improved rice varieties in Vietnam. This research applies Double-hurdle (two-stage) model and a large-scale dataset from Vietnam Access to Resources ...
Nguyễn Hữu Dũng +1 more
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Financial Innovation, 2017 Background This study examined the determinants of loan repayment among microcredit finance group members in Delta State, Nigeria. Methods To capture the determinants of loan repayment in the study area, a total of 48 microcredit groups and 300 ...
Solomon Enimu +2 more
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Household access to microcredit and child work in rural Malawi [PDF]
, 2005 This paper examines the effect of household access to microcredit upon work by seven to eleven year old children in rural Malawi. Given that microcredit organizations foster household enterprises wherein much child labor is engaged, this paper aims to ...
Hazarika, Gautam, Sarangi, Sudipta
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Demand for Microcredit by Indonesian women [PDF]
The poverty alleviating benefits of gender-targeted microcredit programs has successfully been demonstrated in South Asia. In this paper, we examine the demand for credit by Indonesian women, in the absence of such a targeted microcredit program.
Johar, Meliyanni, Rammohan, Anu
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Impacts of household credit on education and healthcare spending by the poor in peri-urban areas in Vietnam [PDF]
, 2011 There is debate about whether microfinance has positive impacts on education and health for borrowing households in developing countries. To provide evidence for this debate we use a new survey designed to meet the conditions for propensity score ...
Doan, Tinh Thanh +2 more
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Giving credit to the microlenders. Formal microlending, credit constraints and adverse selection: a case study of shrimp farmers in Bangladesh [PDF]
Smallholder farmers have long been denied access to formal credit, largely because of the high administrative fees associated with loans. A possible solution to this problem, which has become increasingly popular, is the use of microcredit financing ...
Andersson, Camilla I.M. +3 more
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