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A framework for regulating microfinance institutions : the experience in Ghana and the Philippines [PDF]

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An earlier Policy Research Working Paper (Hennie van Greuning, Joselito Gallardo, and Bikki Randhawa,"A Framework for Regulating Microfinance Institutions,"WPS 2061, February 1999) presented a regulatory framework that identifies thresholds in financial ...
Gallardo, Joselito
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Determinants of technology adoption in Mexico [PDF]

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The author tries to identify the impact of firm-, region-, and industry-specific characteristics on technology adoption by Mexican firms. Cross-sectional and panel data from 1992-99 show that the firms most likely to adopt new technology are large, train
Lopez-Acevedo, Gladys
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How can we learn whether firm policies are working in africa ? challenges (and solutions?) for experiments and structural models [PDF]

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Firm productivity is low in African countries, prompting governments to try a number of active policies to improve it. Yet despite the millions of dollars spent on these policies, we are far from a situation where we know whether many of them are ...
McKenzie, David
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