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Flexible Contract, Flexible Morale? Microcredit Design and Repayment Discipline
International Economic Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Flexible repayment benefits borrowers, but practitioners fear increased moral hazard. Investigating their concerns requires disentangling repayment choices from repayment capacity, which is typically infeasible in field studies. We use a lab‐in‐the‐field experiment with 645 microcredit borrowers to cleanly identify the effect of repayment ...
Kristina Czura, Anett John, Lisa Spantig
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Financial InnovationThe research selected 11 microfinance institutions (MFIs) with sufficient indicator reports in the MIX market database from 2000–2019. The data are then analyzed via a multivariate technique.
Godwin Appiah-Kubi +4 more
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The role of microfinance institutions on women's entrepreneurship development. [PDF]
J Innov Entrep, 2023 Abebe A, Kegne M.
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Outreach and Sustainability of Rural Microfinance in Asia: Observations and Recommendations [PDF]
We in the community of microfinance specialists want to help alleviate poverty. We think microfinance is a useful tool. Yet, by bringing these two concerns together, we might be mixing up two diverging ends: one is poverty reduction; the other one the ...
Seibel, Hans Dieter
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Problematizing the Cooperative Firm: A Marxian View on Paradoxes, Dialectics, and Contradictions
Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Scholars are increasingly turning their attention to cooperative firms, characterized by worker ownership and management, as a way for organizations to address the economic, societal and environmental problems posed by corporate capitalism. This renewed interest stems from the potential of cooperatives to foster an alternative economic system ...
Jon Las Heras +2 more
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Journal of Islamic Monetary Economics and Finance, 2019 One of the advantages of using Islamic social funds is the increased ability of microfinance institutions to provide financial services to the poor.
Aimatul Yumna, Matthew Clarke
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Microfinance tradeoffs : regulation, competition, and financing [PDF]
This paper describes important trade-offs that microfinance practitioners, donors, and regulators navigate. Drawing evidence from large, global surveys of microfinance institutions, the authors find a basic tension between meeting social goals and ...
Cull, Robert +2 more
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Microfinance social performance: A global empirical study [PDF]
, 2012 Over the years, microfinance has been purported to have experienced enormous progress and is seen to contribute towards poverty reduction by extending finance to people previously excluded from formal financial markets.
Awaworyi, Sefa, Marr, Ana
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Inscribing Impact: Measurement Practices in the Making of Moral Markets
Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Moral markets, designed to generate positive impact on pressing social and environmental challenges, are transforming traditional market practices by including more than economic considerations in their operations. The importance of these markets continues to grow as investors, regulators, and consumers increasingly put pressure on companies ...
Guillermo Casasnovas +2 more
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Microfinance Institutions in Nigeria [PDF]
The advocation of micro – financing was triggered by the poor performance of the conventional finance sector. The essence was to reach the overwhelming population of the poor to assist in the drive to alleviate poverty. Barely a million had been provided
Mejeha, Remy O., Nwachukwu, Ifeanyi N.
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