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An Evaluation of Micro-Credit Programs in Bosnia and Herzegovina Using Porter’s Diamond Model [PDF]
Eurasian Journal of Business and Economics, 2013 The effective design and delivery of a microcredit program is difficult under any circumstance. Similarly, the task of microcredit institutions in Bosnia and Herzegovina that provide financial stability to its most impoverished members is very much ...
Mohammad HAMAD, Teoman DUMAN
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Bank Provisioning and Microcredit [PDF]
In this paper we develop a banking model to study the traditional credit and the microcredit markets. We suppose a monopolistic traditional bank that specializes in screening potential debtors based in their risk profile and a microcredit bank that focus
Dairo Estrada, Santiago Caicedo
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HEALTH SHOCKS AND CONSUMPTION SMOOTHING IN RURAL HOUSEHOLDS: DOES MICROCREDIT HAVE A ROLE TO PLAY? [PDF]
This paper estimates, using a large panel data set from rural Bangladesh, the effects of health shocks on household consumption and how access to microcredit affects households' response to such shocks.
Asadul Islam, Pushkar Maitra
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Does Microcredit Reach the Poor and Vulnerable? Evidence from Northern Bangladesh [PDF]
Subsidized loans have a history of being diverted to the rich. Yet recently microcredit programs, such as the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, have become popular among donors and governments as a way to channel funds to the poor.
Ashok S. Rai, Giorgio Topa, Sajeda Amin
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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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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 - A More Credible Social than Economic Program in Bangladesh [PDF]
Calculated under the framework of economic-profit counting, the productivity of microcredit in Bangladesh is found very low. In this survey about 48% of the borrowers had to compromise their normal wages for self-employed labor to be able to pay the high
Md. Mahmudul Alam, Rafiqul Islam Molla
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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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Child Labour and Schooling Responses to Access to Microcredit in Rural Bangladesh [PDF]
Microcredit has been shown to be effective in reducing poverty in many developing countries. However, less is known about its effect on human capital formation. In this paper, we develop a model examining the relation between microcredit and child labour.
Choe, Chongwoo, Islam, Asadul
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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 ...
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